Senior Platform Hardware Design Engineer
Intel · Posted Oct 19
Semiconductor manufacturing, microprocessors, data center solutions, and artificial intelligence infrastructure
India, BangaloreFull-timeHybridSenior Level6+ years₹32.0L–₹55.0L yearly<25 applicants
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About the role
The Silicon and Platform Engineering Group (SPE) at Intel develops integrated silicon and platform solutions, working at the intersection of silicon, board hardware, firmware, validation, signal and power integrity, mechanical and thermal engineering, PCB technology, manufacturing, and system integration. The role provides technical leadership for the architecture, design, integration, bring-up, and validation of complex platform hardware, from requirements and schematic development through PCB implementation, board power-on, debug, and delivery. The engineer also leads design reviews, drives cross-functional alignment, and mentors engineers across hardware development practices.
What you will do
- Own complex platform-board designs from requirements and architecture through deployment.
- Translate high level platform and silicon requirements into system architecture, circuit level requirements, component specifications, and PCB implementation requirements.
- Define and drive critical platform architecture decisions encompassing high speed interfaces, memory, power delivery, clocking, resets, sequencing, control, management, and validation functionality.
- Lead design trade-offs across electrical performance, SI/PI, thermal and mechanical constraints, board complexity, reliability, manufacturability, component availability, cost, schedule, and system compatibility.
- Establish clear technical direction where platform requirements or implementation approaches are initially ambiguous.
- Lead development of complex high density, multilayer PCBs incorporating advanced digital, analog, mixed signal, and power circuitry.
- Own or provide technical leadership for schematic design, component selection, interface definition, PCB implementation, and design verification.
- Establish PCB stack-up, placement, routing, impedance, power distribution, and critical interface requirements in collaboration with layout and analysis teams.
- Lead schematic, layout, and technical design reviews and ensure critical findings are driven to closure.
- Guide engineers and layout teams in resolving challenging schematic, PCB, layout, and design-for-X issues.
- Identify and qualify new hardware solutions and reusable design approaches where appropriate.
- Apply deep understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, transmission-line behavior, high-speed interfaces, and platform power delivery to architecture and implementation decisions.
- Partner with SI/PI engineers to establish design constraints and evaluate critical interfaces and power delivery networks.
- Review PCB implementations for stack-up, placement, routing, return path continuity, high speed performance, and advanced SI/PI considerations.
- Use modeling, simulation, measurement, and hardware correlation to guide technical decisions as appropriate.
- Define and review platform power delivery architecture, voltage regulation, sequencing, power budgeting, and power distribution networks.
- Evaluate board and system power delivery tradeoffs, considering electrical performance, transient behavior, PCB implementation, and platform requirements.
- Work with power integrity specialists to assess PDN behavior and drive required design improvements.
- Apply simulation and hardware measurement to correlate power delivery behavior and resolve platform issues.
- Define and lead power-on, bring up, validation, characterization, and debug strategy for complex platform hardware.
- Lead resolution of difficult issues spanning board hardware, silicon, firmware, high-speed interfaces, power delivery, and system integration.
- Use disciplined root cause analysis to diagnose failures and define corrective actions.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership in the lab during critical power-on, bring up, and debug activities.
- Apply appropriate measurement techniques and laboratory equipment for high speed, low speed, clock, power, and digital/analog circuitry.
- Drive problems across engineering boundaries until technical closure.
- Serve as a senior technical interface across silicon, firmware, validation, SI/PI, mechanical, thermal, PCB layout, manufacturing, suppliers, and program teams.
- Lead technical discussions and design reviews and communicate risks, tradeoffs, recommendations, and design decisions clearly to stakeholders.
- Identify technical and execution risks early and drive mitigation plans.
- Own technical readiness for critical hardware milestones, including design release, fabrication, assembly, power-on, and validation.
- Develop and improve reusable architectures, review methodologies, design checklists, development flows, and engineering practices.
- Mentor engineers through architecture development, schematic and PCB reviews, bring-up, debug, and technical problem solving.
- Influence technical decisions and engineering practices beyond an individual board or project.
Skills used in this role
PCIeDDR/LPDDREthernetUSBVerilogPythonFPGAPCB DesignSchematic CaptureSignal IntegrityPower IntegrityPDN DesignHigh-Speed DesignTransmission LinesSI/PI SimulationDFM/DFTHardware DebuggingAI-Based ToolsTechnical LeadershipMentoringRoot Cause AnalysisCross-Functional CollaborationTechnical Documentation
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 6+ years significant hands-on industry experience in complex platform hardware, PCB development, or system hardware engineering.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex board designs from architecture and requirements through schematic design, PCB implementation, bring-up, debug, and validation.
- Deep understanding of digital and analog board design, electrical interfaces, mixed-signal fundamentals, and system architecture.
- Strong knowledge of high speed interfaces, transmission line behavior, signal integrity, power integrity, memory, clocking, reset, sequencing, and power delivery.
- Proven experience with PCB technologies and layout techniques, including stack-up, placement, routing, and advanced SI/PI considerations.
- Advanced experience with schematic capture and PCB design/review environments.
- Strong hands-on laboratory experience and demonstrated ability to diagnose complex board level problems, determine root cause, and drive corrective actions.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze board/system level design tradeoffs and make sound technical decisions.
- Ability to independently lead complex technical development activities and drive issues across multiple engineering functions.
- Strong technical documentation, presentation, written communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated technical leadership and mentoring capability.
Preferred qualifications
- Extensive experience designing complex compute, server, client, FPGA-based, semiconductor validation or other high performance platform hardware.
- Experience with high speed I/O and memory technologies such as PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, Ethernet, USB, or comparable interfaces.
- Deep understanding of PCB stack-up, placement, routing, high speed design, transmission lines, signal integrity, crosstalk, power integrity, and PDN design.
- Experience applying SI/PI, power, circuit, or electromagnetic simulation to board architecture and design decisions.
- Experience defining and validating sophisticated power delivery solutions, power management architectures and basic Verilog coding,
- Strong understanding of PCB fabrication, assembly manufacturing flows, DFM/DFT, component selection, and design release processes.
- Proven experience taking complex boards through the complete lifecycle from architecture through PCB implementation, fabrication, assembly, power-on, validation, and deployment.
- Experience establishing or improving hardware design flows, methodologies, design reviews, and reusable engineering practices.
- Experience with scripting or automation using Python or comparable tools for hardware development, analysis, validation, or debug.
- Working experience in integrating the AI-based tools and agents in regular workflow
- Experience providing technical leadership across multidisciplinary and geographically distributed engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor other engineers while remaining hands-on with architecture, board design, bring-up, and complex debug.
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
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Executive Vice President – Chief Technology and Operations Officer, General Manager Intel Foundry
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