Province: Karnataka
Description:
Job ID: JR0004875
Job Category: Engineering Support
Primary Location: Bangalore, KA IN
Other Locations:
Job Type: Experienced Hire
Senior Software Architect – Mobile
Senior Software Architect, Technical leader with Linux/Android Platform and
Systems Focus, Consumer Innovation Center
As the world’s largest dedicated security technology company, McAfee delivers
proactive and proven solutions and services that secure systems and networks
around the world, allowing users to securely browse, shop and socialize on the
Web through PCs, Macs and mobile devices. McAfee Consumer Products now extend
well beyond anti-virus to include protection of identity, family, data, mobile
devices, home and wearables.
McAfee Consumer Innovation Center is chartered to build new products and
services for McAfee Consumer Business. Anchored in design thinking, the center
brings to life novel consumer usages with deep technological foundations. The
new products could be in core security and privacy protection, or adjacent
areas such as data protection, as well as those that open new product
portfolio opportunities for McAfee across PC, Web, mobile, Smart Home,
Wearable, IOT devices & apps.
If you are passionate about
Inventing deep and elegant solutions that delight consumer usersThinking like
an entrepreneur building generation consumer applicationsWriting inventions,
patents, and research articles that protect future productsThen, we have
unique opportunities just for you. We are looking for rockstar innovation
engineers with an entrepreneurial fire. We promise a thrilling ride seeing
your ideas transformed into real products that reach the millions of
consumers. An opportunity to work in the McAfee India Center, recognized by
the industry in 2016 as a “Great Place to Innovate”.
Senior Software Architects are senior technical leaders who drive research,
technology pathfinding, concept building, and rapid product development to
mature innovations from cradle to product. The candidate leverages R&D;
experience and passion to propose new ideas, work with product management team
to explore the opportunity space, work along-side designers to build concepts,
and iteratively develop to build consumer solutions that delight our user
base.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Conducting deep research on consumer computing, new technologies, consumer
platforms, security landscape, devices and emerging usages. Identifying new
product opportunities based on user research and industry trends.Be the expert
on Linux/Android/iOS based platforms and various subsystems. Develop
differentiated consumer solutions based on solid systems and communication
foundations and technologies. Be an innovator who leverages knowledge and
expertise across a wide variety of domains to build consumer solutions.
Example domains are: Cloud-based consumer and mobile applications, Security
and Privacy, Internet of Things, Cloud services, Data management, Networking,
Fingerprinting, Communication, Machine learning, and Analytics.Execute with a
sense of urgency to drive ideas into products through the innovation life-
cycle. Architect solutions from scratch, extracting essence of user pain
points and navigating the product opportunity space.Be an expert in designing
consumer solutions that scale to 100s of millions of users.Be well-versed in
the creation of disclosures, patents, white papers, blogs, research articles
and industry demos and presentations. Be an expert in presenting the
innovations to senior executives and top-tier customers.Own the projects like
an entrepreneur constantly aware of competitive threats, opportunities and
differentiation, being two steps ahead of the industry peers, and continuously
evangelizing the solutions internally and externally. Collaborate with
globally distributed product managers, designers, user researchers, business
unit GMs, marketing executives, and customers.
Qualifications
•15+ years’ experience as an engineer with a track record of creating
impactful technologies, architectures and products.
•Must have Masters/PhD in Computer Science/Electrical/Electronics Engineering
from a premier institute in India/US/Canada or elsewhere.
•A solid combination of technology depth and keen sense of business acumen.
Ability to think and drive like an entrepreneur is a must. Demonstrated
ability to deal with ambiguity inherent in advanced product and technology
explorations.
•Must be hands-on with building consumer facing applications and experiences.
Deep appreciation for UX as a key ingredient a must, although expertise in UX
is not required. Ability to conceive and rapidly build prototypes using
appropriate technologies.
•Demonstrated track record of driving innovations from idea to products, while
bringing to life killer features to delight customers and users. Ability to
track industry, usage and competitive trends, and calibrating products to
excel in the market place.
•Proven thought leader as demonstrated by disclosures, patents, research
publications, blogs, industry standards, and customer and industry
presentations.
•Passion to mentor and grow technologist and engineers. Role model technical
leader with vision and collaborative spirit.
•Expert executive communicator on strategy, trends, innovations, and
opportunities to influence directions and decisions.
•Conversant with at least a subset of the computing domains: mobile and
embedded operating systems, end point and cloud security, communication
protocols and stacks, IP, WiFI, BT, Zigbee, LPWAN, LORA, network security,
browser platforms and internals, malware research, privacy protection, machine
learning and advanced statistical analysis and inference, spatio-temporal
reasoning, crowd sourcing, social networks, image and text analysis, data
mining, cloud-based analytics, performance modeling, object and face
recognition, cryptography, identity, authentication, content reputation,
system level optimizations, compilers, code analysis and optimization,
parallel and distributed computing, knowledge representation and reasoning,
feature extraction, decision making systems, user experience design and
analysis, and user research.
McAfee, part of Intel Security and a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corp.
(NASDAQ:INTC), empowers businesses, the public sector, and home users to
safely experience the benefits of the Internet. The company delivers proactive
and proven security solutions and services for systems, networks, and mobile
devices around the world. With its visionary Security Connected strategy,
innovative approach to hardware-enhanced security, and unique Global Threat
Intelligence network, McAfee is relentlessly focused on keeping its customers
safe.
Inside this Business Group
The Intel Security Group combines employees from McAfee and Intel – people
with security expertise in hardware, software, and solutions into one business
unit focused on building hardware, software, services and end-to-end security
solutions. Intel Security Group sets the stage for new levels of collaboration
and innovation and will drive leadership in the industry by providing
ubiquitous security and identity protection for people and businesses
worldwide.
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