Senior Designer

Role overview

Senior Designer at HCLTech

Role Summary Execute Linux kernel and BSP sustenance tasks, reporting to the Pod Lead.

Pod 6 — Linux — Senior Engineer Pod / Track Pod 6 — Linux Role Title Senior Engineer — Linux Kernel & BSP Experience 5 – 8 years Primary Location Hyderabad, India (Transition phase); HCLTech Offshore Delivery Center thereafter Work Model Physical co-location at Hyderabad mandatory during Transition (Month 1–3) for knowledge transfer and hardware/lab access; delivery shifts to HCLTech's Offshore Delivery Center (ODC) from Shadow (Month 4–6) onward.

Responsibilities

• Implement kernel, device-tree and BSP fixes.
• Support HLOS boot hand-off validation and kernel-level boot-time/memory performance tuning.
• Support kernel version upgrade cycles across platform releases.
• Prepare and submit patches to kernel.org/vendor Linux trees for Lead review.
• Triage kernel panics and crash dumps.
• Support the kernel security-patch cadence and CVE response process.
• Must-Have Skills
• 5–8 years Linux kernel engineering.
• Linux kernel internals.
• Device tree authoring.
• Upstream kernel contribution process (kernel.org).
• Kernel debugging (kdump/crash).
• Security patch triage and CVE response.
• Yocto/OpenEmbedded HLOS build experience; boot-time and memory performance profiling.
• Good-to-Have Skills
• Upstream kernel.org maintainership or a significant patch history.
• Yocto/OpenEmbedded layer maintenance.
• Real-time kernel (PREEMPT_RT) experience.
• Embedded security-patching automation tooling.
• OTA update integration experience at the kernel/HLOS layer.
• Skill Requirements Other Requirements

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad [India]