Diagnostics Firmware Engineer
Intel · Posted Oct 16
Semiconductor manufacturing, microprocessors, data center solutions, and artificial intelligence infrastructure
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About the role
This role sits within Intel's Data Center Group (DCG), which designs and delivers technologies that power cloud computing and data-driven innovation, including the next generation of discrete GPU and AI products. The team builds platform software, diagnostics, and tooling used for silicon and board bring-up, hardware validation, system integration, manufacturing, benchmarking, and product optimization across firmware, device drivers, operating systems, middleware, and frameworks. The engineer will design, develop, integrate, and validate diagnostic and AI software, build board-level and system-level diagnostics, optimize AI workloads and benchmarks, and debug complex hardware-software issues in collaboration with silicon, board, system, firmware, driver, validation, and customer teams.
What you will do
- Design, develop, integrate, and validate diagnostic and AI software for Intel GPU and data center AI products.
- Build board-level and system-level diagnostics for silicon bring-up, hardware validation, system integration, manufacturing, and customer enablement.
- Create capabilities ranging from low-level hardware access to full-feature stress, performance, and functional testing.
- Collaborate early with silicon, board, system, firmware, driver, validation, and customers to define diagnostic requirements and strategy.
- Own the full software lifecycle, including definition, architecture, development and maintenance.
- Develop and optimize AI workloads, benchmarks, simulations, and reference software to support power, performance, and architecture analysis.
- Debug complex system-wide issues involving interactions between hardware and software.
- Develop tools and infrastructure that improve profiling, optimization, productization, and engineering efficiency.
- Partner with internal and external stakeholders to deliver integrated, production-ready solutions.
- Drive innovative approaches that make Intel’s AI and GPU diagnostics best in class.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, or a related field with 4+ years of relevant experience; or a master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience; or a PhD.
- Strong programming skills in C, C++, and Python.
- Experience developing platform software, firmware, device drivers, diagnostics, or other low-level software.
- Solid understanding of software development practices, including design, debugging, testing, validation, and optimization.
- Strong knowledge of hardware and software engineering concepts, diagnostic test methods, and debug techniques.
- Ability to solve complex problems that span hardware, firmware, drivers, and applications.
- Clear communication, sound decision-making, and effective collaboration across global, cross-functional teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Hands-on experience developing diagnostic software for GPU, AI accelerator, data center, or other complex compute products.
- Understanding of board-level and chip-level architecture, board design processes, and hardware testing.
- Experience working closely with hardware and electrical engineering teams during product development and debug.
- Knowledge of GPU architecture, memory, PCIe, and high-performance computing systems.
- Experience with machine learning or deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Experience developing or optimizing AI workloads for benchmarking, simulation, or pre-silicon power and performance analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical work, learn new technologies independently, and turn ambiguous challenges into practical solutions.
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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