Senior Design Lead

Role overview

Senior Design Lead at HCLTech

Role Summary Execute security-software sustenance tasks — secure boot, TrustZone and crypto — reporting to the Pod Lead.

Pod 3 — SSG — Senior Engineer Pod / Track Pod 3 — SSG Role Title Senior Engineer — Security Software (TrustZone, Secure Boot & Crypto) 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 fixes for secure boot, TrustZone isolation, and crypto (AES/TRNG) defects, under the Pod Lead's direction.
• Support Hardware Root of Trust key provisioning and certificate/lifecycle workflows.
• Execute validation of security subsystem updates against each firmware release.
• Maintain the security regression suite.
• Must-Have Skills
• 5–8 years embedded platform security engineering (secure boot, TrustZone/TEE, cryptography).
• Secure boot / verified boot chain-of-trust implementation.
• TrustZone architecture and isolation enforcement.
• Applied cryptography — AES, TRNG, key management, HRoT/fusing.
• Security debugging across firmware and kernel layers.
• Good-to-Have Skills
• GlobalPlatform TEE APIs / OP-TEE Trusted Application development.
• Security certification exposure (FIPS 140-3, PSA Certified, SESIP or similar).
• Fuzzing, static analysis and secure SDLC tooling.
• HSM-backed manufacturing signing infrastructure experience.
• Skill Requirements Other Requirements

Employment details

• Location: Hyderabad [India]