Platform Hardware Design Engineer
Intel · Posted Oct 16
Semiconductor manufacturing, microprocessors, data center solutions, and artificial intelligence infrastructure
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About the role
The team within Intel focuses on hardware systems and subsystems, developing and enabling platform hardware solutions that support Intel's performance and efficiency goals. The work spans electronic components, PCBs, and integrated circuitry for advanced hardware platforms. This role designs and evaluates board-level hardware, drives schematic capture and board layout through tape out, analyzes BOM cost and availability trade-offs, and leads platform hardware power-on and debug with architects, verification engineers, and technicians.
What you will do
- Translate platform-level requirements into circuit and component-level specifications.
- Design, develop, modify, and evaluate electronic parts, components, PCBs, and integrated circuitry for hardware platforms.
- Conduct logical design of printed circuit boards, including component definition, schematic capture, and circuit trace routing rules.
- Manage board layout activities from feasibility studies to tape out while meeting multidisciplinary platform requirements.
- Assess BOM cost and availability data, balancing design trade-offs at the board and system levels.
- Collaborate with architects, design engineers, verification engineers, and technicians to lead platform hardware power-on and debug activities.
- Incorporate feedback from verification, validation, manufacturing, and customers to enhance development methods.
- Perform design research, verification, testing, and utilization of components, materials, thermal solutions, and packaging for platform hardware.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field with 4+ years of hands-on experience in hardware systems design OR Master's degree in a related field with 3+ years of experience OR PhD with no prior professional experience.
- Proficiency in electrical schematic capture and PCB layout tools.
- Hands-on experience designing PCBs, integrated circuitry, and other electronic components.
- Demonstrated expertise in logical design and component definition.
- Familiarity with BOM cost analysis and trade-offs at board and system levels.
- Cadence Concept HDL
- BOM Cost Analysis, BOM Optimization
- Vendor Interaction & ODM interaction
- High Speed Board design, TBT, LPDDDR5
Preferred qualifications
- Strong communication skills and ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.
- Hands on AI tool and experience on HW design
- Experience collaborating with validation, verification, and manufacturing teams.
- Ability to troubleshoot and debug complex hardware systems.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Intel
Intel Corporation is a global technology leader focused on the design and manufacturing of microprocessors, integrated circuits, and advanced data center infrastructure. The company drives innovation across personal computing, artificial intelligence, and cloud ecosystems while operating a major semiconductor foundry business. Intel delivers foundational silicon and packaging solutions that power modern digital infrastructure worldwide.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 1968
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Lip-Bu Tan
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Pushkar Ranade
Chief Technology Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO
Executive Vice President – Chief Technology and Operations Officer, General Manager Intel Foundry
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