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Senior Technical Architect

HCLTech · Hyderabad

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Role overview

Senior Technical Architect at HCLTech

Role Summary Own Linux kernel and BSP sustenance — version upgrades, device-tree maintenance, upstream kernel.org contribution, and kernel driver defect resolution across the platform.

Pod 6 — Linux — Lead Pod / Track Pod 6 — Linux Role Title Lead — Linux Kernel & BSP Experience 8 – 10 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

  • Sustain the kernel, device tree, and board support package.
  • Own the HLOS boot hand-off from the bootloader/Coretech layer through kernel initialization.
  • Tune kernel-level performance — memory footprint and boot-time optimization — and support OTA integration at the kernel/HLOS layer.
  • Manage kernel version upgrade cycles across platform releases.
  • Upstream patches to kernel.org and vendor Linux trees, aligned with the platform's upstream-first open-source direction.
  • Triage kernel panics and crash dumps.
  • Maintain the kernel security-patch cadence and CVE response process.
  • Mentor the pod's Senior Engineers on kernel debugging and upstream contribution practice.
  • Must-Have Skills
  • 8–10 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]

Collected experience requirement

8-10 years