Senior Technical Architect
India
Job Description
Senior Technical Architect
Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Summary

Pod 1 — Multimedia — Lead
Pod / Track    Pod 1 — Multimedia
Role Title    Lead — Multimedia Platform (Audio, Video, Display, Graphics, Camera & Sensors/DSP)
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.
Role Summary
Own end-to-end sustenance of the multimedia stack across six sub-disciplines — audio, video, display, graphics, sensors/DSP, and camera — spanning kernel drivers, HAL layers, and userspace frameworks on IoT platforms.
Key Responsibilities
•    Triage and resolve customer-reported and internal defects across audio (ADSP/codec offload), video (Venus/Codec2 encode-decode), display (SDE/DRM/KMS), graphics (Adreno GPU, OpenGL ES/Vulkan), camera ISP (CamX/Chi-CDK tuning), and sensor DSP/computer-vision pipelines.
•    Own the camera-to-compute image pipeline end-to-end (sensor → ISP → compute/AI consumer) and the video post-processing chain (scaling, colour conversion, filtering, tone-mapping) as first-class scope within the pod.
•    Perform root-cause analysis using kernel logs, ADSP/DSP core dumps, and multimedia framework traces; upstream fixes to kernel.org/vendor Linux trees where applicable.
•    Validate fixes against vendor reference test suites and customer use-cases before release sign-off.
•    Maintain multimedia HAL layers across firmware/driver updates and SoC revisions.
•    Characterize and improve image/audio quality using vendor tuning tools and objective/subjective evaluation methods.
•    Mentor the pod's Senior Engineers across sub-disciplines and maintain the pod knowledge base per the program's knowledge-management framework.
•    Act as multimedia point of contact for escalations to the platform engineering team.
Must-Have Skills
•    8–10 years embedded multimedia / Linux BSP engineering, spanning at least three 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.

Key Responsibilities

Pod 1 — Multimedia — Lead
Pod / Track    Pod 1 — Multimedia
Role Title    Lead — Multimedia Platform (Audio, Video, Display, Graphics, Camera & Sensors/DSP)
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.
Role Summary
Own end-to-end sustenance of the multimedia stack across six sub-disciplines — audio, video, display, graphics, sensors/DSP, and camera — spanning kernel drivers, HAL layers, and userspace frameworks on IoT platforms.
Key Responsibilities
•    Triage and resolve customer-reported and internal defects across audio (ADSP/codec offload), video (Venus/Codec2 encode-decode), display (SDE/DRM/KMS), graphics (Adreno GPU, OpenGL ES/Vulkan), camera ISP (CamX/Chi-CDK tuning), and sensor DSP/computer-vision pipelines.
•    Own the camera-to-compute image pipeline end-to-end (sensor → ISP → compute/AI consumer) and the video post-processing chain (scaling, colour conversion, filtering, tone-mapping) as first-class scope within the pod.
•    Perform root-cause analysis using kernel logs, ADSP/DSP core dumps, and multimedia framework traces; upstream fixes to kernel.org/vendor Linux trees where applicable.
•    Validate fixes against vendor reference test suites and customer use-cases before release sign-off.
•    Maintain multimedia HAL layers across firmware/driver updates and SoC revisions.
•    Characterize and improve image/audio quality using vendor tuning tools and objective/subjective evaluation methods.
•    Mentor the pod's Senior Engineers across sub-disciplines and maintain the pod knowledge base per the program's knowledge-management framework.
•    Act as multimedia point of contact for escalations to the platform engineering team.
Must-Have Skills
•    8–10 years embedded multimedia / Linux BSP engineering, spanning at least three 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.

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