Senior Designer
India
Job Description
Senior Designer
Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Summary

Pod 1 — Multimedia — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track    Pod 1 — Multimedia
Role Title    Senior Engineer — Multimedia Platform (Audio, Video, Display, Graphics, Camera & Sensors/DSP)
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 day-to-day sustenance work across the multimedia stack — audio, video, display, graphics, camera and sensors/DSP — in the sub-discipline(s) assigned, reporting to the Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities
•    Implement and validate fixes for customer-reported and internal defects in the assigned sub-discipline (audio, video, display, graphics, camera ISP or sensors/DSP).
•    Support the camera-to-compute image pipeline (sensor → ISP → compute) and the video post-processing chain in the assigned sub-discipline.
•    Perform root-cause analysis using kernel logs, ADSP/DSP core dumps, and multimedia framework traces.
•    Execute release validation against reference test suites and customer use-cases.
•    Maintain multimedia HAL/driver code for the assigned sub-discipline across firmware/driver updates.
•    Contribute findings to the pod knowledge base and RCA repository.
Must-Have Skills
•    5–8 years embedded multimedia / Linux BSP engineering, in one or more of audio, video, display, graphics, camera or sensor/DSP.
•    Strong C/C++ and Linux kernel driver debugging.
•    V4L2 / DRM / ALSA subsystems.
•    Camera ISP tuning tools and CamX/Chi-CDK architecture.
•    Video codec standards (H.264/H.265/AV1) and hardware codec pipelines.
•    Adreno GPU driver stack, OpenGL ES/Vulkan.
•    Hexagon DSP fundamentals; JTAG and kernel crash-dump analysis.
•    Video post-processing pipeline development (scaling, colour conversion, filtering).
Good-to-Have Skills
•    Multi-camera synchronization and multi-stream concurrency experience.
•    AI/ML inference pipeline integration with zero-copy buffer sharing to an NPU.
•    GStreamer pipeline development.
•    HDR, tone-mapping and colour-science exposure.
•    Direct experience with Chromatix or equivalent tuning tools.
•    Camera-to-compute pipeline integration experience with downstream AI/vision consumers.

Key Responsibilities

Pod 1 — Multimedia — Senior Engineer
Pod / Track    Pod 1 — Multimedia
Role Title    Senior Engineer — Multimedia Platform (Audio, Video, Display, Graphics, Camera & Sensors/DSP)
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 day-to-day sustenance work across the multimedia stack — audio, video, display, graphics, camera and sensors/DSP — in the sub-discipline(s) assigned, reporting to the Pod Lead.
Key Responsibilities
•    Implement and validate fixes for customer-reported and internal defects in the assigned sub-discipline (audio, video, display, graphics, camera ISP or sensors/DSP).
•    Support the camera-to-compute image pipeline (sensor → ISP → compute) and the video post-processing chain in the assigned sub-discipline.
•    Perform root-cause analysis using kernel logs, ADSP/DSP core dumps, and multimedia framework traces.
•    Execute release validation against reference test suites and customer use-cases.
•    Maintain multimedia HAL/driver code for the assigned sub-discipline across firmware/driver updates.
•    Contribute findings to the pod knowledge base and RCA repository.
Must-Have Skills
•    5–8 years embedded multimedia / Linux BSP engineering, in one or more of audio, video, display, graphics, camera or sensor/DSP.
•    Strong C/C++ and Linux kernel driver debugging.
•    V4L2 / DRM / ALSA subsystems.
•    Camera ISP tuning tools and CamX/Chi-CDK architecture.
•    Video codec standards (H.264/H.265/AV1) and hardware codec pipelines.
•    Adreno GPU driver stack, OpenGL ES/Vulkan.
•    Hexagon DSP fundamentals; JTAG and kernel crash-dump analysis.
•    Video post-processing pipeline development (scaling, colour conversion, filtering).
Good-to-Have Skills
•    Multi-camera synchronization and multi-stream concurrency experience.
•    AI/ML inference pipeline integration with zero-copy buffer sharing to an NPU.
•    GStreamer pipeline development.
•    HDR, tone-mapping and colour-science exposure.
•    Direct experience with Chromatix or equivalent tuning tools.
•    Camera-to-compute pipeline integration experience with downstream AI/vision consumers.

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