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You will drive hardware development end-to-end, translating high level system requirements into detailed circuit and component specifications and leading designs from architecture and schematic development through PCB implementation, board power-on, debugging, validation, and delivery. You will be expected to make platform level technical decisions, resolve complex and ambiguous multidisciplinary problems, lead critical design reviews, drive cross-functional alignment, mentor engineers, and influence hardware development practices across projects.\nOur Business Group\nYou will be joining the Silicon and Platform Engineering Group (SPE), an organization at Intel committed to advancing Intel's mission of delivering world-class silicon and platform solutions. The group focuses on developing integrated systems that align with customer needs and support Intel's broader goals of leadership in technology innovation. SPE collaborates across diverse domains to ensure Intel platforms meet performance, reliability, and scalability requirements.\nOur work sits at the intersection of silicon, board hardware, firmware, validation, signal and power integrity, mechanical and thermal engineering, PCB technology, manufacturing, and system integration.\nOur senior hardware engineers have a broader responsibility than executing an individual design. They help establish platform architecture, guide implementation, identify and qualify appropriate hardware solutions, provide technical leadership during board power-on and debug, and lead resolution of schematic, layout, SI/PI, and hardware issues.\nKey Responsibilities\nPlatform Architecture and End-to-End Technical Ownership\nOwn complex platform-board designs from requirements and architecture through deployment.\nTranslate high level platform and silicon requirements into system architecture, circuit level requirements, component specifications, and PCB implementation requirements.\nDefine and drive critical platform architecture decisions encompassing high speed interfaces, memory, power delivery, clocking, resets, sequencing, control, management, and validation functionality.\nLead design trade-offs across electrical performance, SI/PI, thermal and mechanical constraints, board complexity, reliability, manufacturability, component availability, cost, schedule, and system compatibility.\nEstablish clear technical direction where platform requirements or implementation approaches are initially ambiguous.\nAdvanced Board Design and Technical Leadership\nLead development of complex high density, multilayer PCBs incorporating advanced digital, analog, mixed signal, and power circuitry.\nOwn or provide technical leadership for schematic design, component selection, interface definition, PCB implementation, and design verification.\nEstablish PCB stack-up, placement, routing, impedance, power distribution, and critical interface requirements in collaboration with layout and analysis teams.\nLead schematic, layout, and technical design reviews and ensure critical findings are driven to closure.\nGuide engineers and layout teams in resolving challenging schematic, PCB, layout, and design-for-X issues.\nIdentify and qualify new hardware solutions and reusable design approaches where appropriate.\nHigh-Speed Design and SI/PI\nApply deep understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, transmission-line behavior, high-speed interfaces, and platform power delivery to architecture and implementation decisions.\nPartner with SI/PI engineers to establish design constraints and evaluate critical interfaces and power delivery networks.\nReview PCB implementations for stack-up, placement, routing, return path continuity, high speed performance, and advanced SI/PI considerations.\nUse modeling, simulation, measurement, and hardware correlation to guide technical decisions as appropriate.\nPower Architecture and Power Delivery\nDefine and review platform power delivery architecture, voltage regulation, sequencing, power budgeting, and power distribution networks.\nEvaluate board and system power delivery tradeoffs, considering electrical performance, transient behavior, PCB implementation, and platform requirements.\nWork with power integrity specialists to assess PDN behavior and drive required design improvements.\nApply simulation and hardware measurement to correlate power delivery behavior and resolve platform issues.\nBoard Bring-up, System Integration and Debug\nDefine and lead power-on, bring up, validation, characterization, and debug strategy for complex platform hardware.\nLead resolution of difficult issues spanning board hardware, silicon, firmware, high-speed interfaces, power delivery, and system integration.\nUse disciplined root cause analysis to diagnose failures and define corrective actions.\nProvide hands-on technical leadership in the lab during critical power-on, bring up, and debug activities.\nApply appropriate measurement techniques and laboratory equipment for high speed, low speed, clock, power, and digital/analog circuitry.\nDrive problems across engineering boundaries until technical closure.\nProgram and Cross-functional Leadership\nServe as a senior technical interface across silicon, firmware, validation, SI/PI, mechanical, thermal, PCB layout, manufacturing, suppliers, and program teams.\nLead technical discussions and design reviews and communicate risks, tradeoffs, recommendations, and design decisions clearly to stakeholders.\nIdentify technical and execution risks early and drive mitigation plans.\nOwn technical readiness for critical hardware milestones, including design release, fabrication, assembly, power-on, and validation.\nDevelop and improve reusable architectures, review methodologies, design checklists, development flows, and engineering practices.\nMentor engineers through architecture development, schematic and PCB reviews, bring-up, debug, and technical problem solving.\n• Influence technical decisions and engineering practices beyond an individual board or project.\nQualifications:\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.\n6+ years significant hands-on industry experience in complex platform hardware, PCB development, or system hardware engineering.\nDemonstrated experience leading complex board designs from architecture and requirements through schematic design, PCB implementation, bring-up, debug, and validation.\nDeep understanding of digital and analog board design, electrical interfaces, mixed-signal fundamentals, and system architecture.\nStrong knowledge of high speed interfaces, transmission line behavior, signal integrity, power integrity, memory, clocking, reset, sequencing, and power delivery.\nProven experience with PCB technologies and layout techniques, including stack-up, placement, routing, and advanced SI/PI considerations. \nAdvanced experience with schematic capture and PCB design/review environments.\nStrong hands-on laboratory experience and demonstrated ability to diagnose complex board level problems, determine root cause, and drive corrective actions. \nDemonstrated ability to analyze board/system level design tradeoffs and make sound technical decisions.\nAbility to independently lead complex technical development activities and drive issues across multiple engineering functions.\nStrong technical documentation, presentation, written communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nDemonstrated technical leadership and mentoring capability. Preferred Qualifications\nExtensive experience designing complex compute, server, client, FPGA-based, semiconductor validation or other high performance platform hardware.\nExperience with high speed I/O and memory technologies such as PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, USB, or comparable interfaces.\nDeep understanding of PCB stack-up, placement, routing, high speed design, transmission lines, signal integrity, crosstalk, power integrity, and PDN design.\nExperience applying SI/PI, power, circuit, or electromagnetic simulation to board architecture and design decisions.\nExperience defining and validating sophisticated power delivery solutions, power management architectures and basic Verilog coding,\nStrong understanding of PCB fabrication, assembly manufacturing flows, DFM/DFT, component selection, and design release processes.\nProven experience taking complex boards through the complete lifecycle from architecture through PCB implementation, fabrication, assembly, power-on, validation, and deployment.\nExperience establishing or improving hardware design flows, methodologies, design reviews, and reusable engineering practices. \nExperience with scripting or automation using Python or comparable tools for hardware development, analysis, validation, or debug. \nWorking experience in integrating the AI-based tools and agents in regular workflow\nExperience providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary and geographically distributed engineering teams.\nDemonstrated ability to mentor other engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture, board design, bring-up, and complex debug.\nJob Type:\nExperienced HireShift:\nShift 1 (India)Primary Location:\nIndia, BangaloreAdditional Locations:\nPosting Statement:\nAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.Position of Trust\nN/AWork Model for this Role\nThis role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.*\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. 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