Senior Design Lead
India
Job Description
Senior Design Lead
Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Summary

Pod 8 — PPAT — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track    Pod 8 — PPAT
Role Title    Senior Engineer — Power, Performance & Thermal (PPAT)
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.
Role Summary
Execute power, performance and thermal profiling and tuning tasks, reporting to the Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities
•    Execute power, performance, and thermal profiling against baseline.
•    Support thermal hot-spot identification and measurement across the SoC package.
•    Triage power/thermal regressions introduced by firmware or driver changes.
•    Support DVFS and thermal-mitigation policy tuning.
•    Contribute to power/thermal characterization reports for customer reviews.
Must-Have Skills
•    5–8 years SoC power/performance engineering.
•    Power profiling tooling.
•    DVFS / thermal governor tuning.
•    Performance benchmarking methodology.
•    Statistical analysis of power/thermal data.
•    Thermal hot-spot identification and remediation methodology.
Good-to-Have Skills
•    Thermal simulation tooling (e.g. Icepak or equivalent).
•    ML-assisted DVFS tuning experience.
•    Experience presenting power/thermal data directly to customer stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Pod 8 — PPAT — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track    Pod 8 — PPAT
Role Title    Senior Engineer — Power, Performance & Thermal (PPAT)
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.
Role Summary
Execute power, performance and thermal profiling and tuning tasks, reporting to the Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities
•    Execute power, performance, and thermal profiling against baseline.
•    Support thermal hot-spot identification and measurement across the SoC package.
•    Triage power/thermal regressions introduced by firmware or driver changes.
•    Support DVFS and thermal-mitigation policy tuning.
•    Contribute to power/thermal characterization reports for customer reviews.
Must-Have Skills
•    5–8 years SoC power/performance engineering.
•    Power profiling tooling.
•    DVFS / thermal governor tuning.
•    Performance benchmarking methodology.
•    Statistical analysis of power/thermal data.
•    Thermal hot-spot identification and remediation methodology.
Good-to-Have Skills
•    Thermal simulation tooling (e.g. Icepak or equivalent).
•    ML-assisted DVFS tuning experience.
•    Experience presenting power/thermal data directly to customer stakeholders.

Skill Requirements

Other Requirements

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Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.