Full Job Description
An Amazing Career Opportunity for an Senior Lead Engineer – C Firmware!!
Chennai, India.
You are a dynamic, highly skilled, and experienced engineering and technology enthusiast, and enjoy working in an exciting and fast paced growing environment. You excel at communication, collaboration and have solid accounting and compliance knowledge. Leveraging these skills is what you enjoy doing throughout the day. You are a top performer and want to engage with a team who have the same positive energy, integrity, and dedication to the work as you do.
Who are we?
HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people, places, and things, allowing people to transact safely, work productively and travel freely.
We are a high-tech software company headquartered in Austin, TX, with over 4,000 worldwide employees.
Check us out here: www.hidglobal.com and https://youtu.be/23km5H4K9Eo
About HID Global, Chennai
HID Global’s, Flagship R&D Center in Chennai hosts 300 employees in a 48000 square foot space dedicated to delivering innovative products and provide an excellent platform for scaling our operations in delivering secure access solutions. Here we deliver cloud-based solutions, web and mobile application development. The Chennai R&D Center is seen as the subject matter expert and talent pool on the latest cloud technologies, logical and physical access systems, data engineering including AI/ML, cryptographic key management systems, and other mobile-based smart card delivery systems.
As our Senior Lead Engineer – C Firmware, you’ll support success by:
HID Global, a recognized worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, is hiring a Senior Lead Engineer to be part of the SDI team. SDI stands for Secure Delivery Infrastructure. SDI is one of the core systems in HID. It’s a key management and cryptographic system responsible for managing keys used in credentials and readers. It also generates secure payload for HID endpoints like PSAM (a custom SEL88 based ICC OS that exposes crypto operations) and HSM (Hardware Security Module), etc.
The successful candidate shall not be afraid of learning new software stacks irrespective of the platform they run on. He/she must be able to switch domains, from embedded to servers to front end. He/she must be an ardent self-learner, well versed in state of art in software engineering and passionate about sharing knowledge with others.
Required Skills:
Minimum of 4 years of firmware development on resource constrained devices
Minimum of 8 years of experience with C/C++
Experience with Java or C#, preferably Java
Good understanding of object oriented programming
Good knowledge of symmetric cryptography (AES, TDES). Must have used/applied the cryptographic algorithms.
Good understanding of asymmetric cryptography (RSA/DSA, ECC)
Good knowledge of PKCS standards specially PKCS#11
Programming using PCKS#11 interface in Java and/or C
Nice to have:
Experience with Thales or Luna HSM
Embedded HSM programming using SEE code in C
Experience with Soft HSM
Knowledge of key management best practices
Knowledge of NIST recommendations around key management
Knowledge of Oasis KMIP protocol
Expert competence in crypto programming
Experience with distributed key management
Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Take part in the daily software development work and maintenance of the crypto system
Operational maintenance and support for managing HSMs
Become subject matter expert in respectively expertize area (as defined above).
Actively take part in design of in-house systems.
Be proactive and understand the business needs and propose architectural solutions based on the discussions.
Be hands on and actively participate in software development when needed.
What we appreciate about your background:
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience
Bachelor in computer science, computer engineering or equivalent skills and experience required
Minimum of 8 years of experience with C/C++
Minimum of 4 years of firmware development on resource constrained devices
Deep analytical and problem solving skills
Language Skills
Ability to effectively communicate in the English language, both verbally and in writing.
Ability to read and interpret technical journals, specifications, international technical standards, etc.
Customer Expectations
Highlight knowledge, skills, abilities and traits necessary in this role to satisfy our customer’s expectations
Has desire to provide the customer with the highest quality products.
Understand and actively demonstrate the principles of HID customer centricity policy.
Take personal ownership to create and remarkable experience that drives valuable business results.
Who you are as a Leader:
Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
Willingness to ‘roll up sleeves’ and dive deep into tactical work when necessary.
Strong team player and ability to work well with others.
Why apply?
Empowerment: You’ll work as part of a global team in a flexible work environment, learning and enhancing your expertise.
Innovation: You embrace challenges and want to drive ambitious change.
Integrity: You are results-orientated, reliable, and straightforward.
We make it easier for people to get where they want to go!
On an average day, think of how many times you tap, twist, tag, push or swipe to get access, find information, connect with others or track something. HID technology is behind billions of interactions, in more than 100 countries. We help you create a verified, trusted identity that can get you where you need to go – without having to think about it.
When you join our HID team, you’ll also be part of the ASSA ABLOY Group, the global leader in access solutions. You’ll have 50,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally. As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.
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