Platform Hardware design Engineer
Intel · Posted Oct 19
Semiconductor manufacturing, microprocessors, data center solutions, and artificial intelligence infrastructure
India, BangaloreFull-timeHybridSenior Level6+ years₹30.0L–₹45.0L yearly36 applicants
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About the role
The Silicon and Platform Engineering Group (SPE) at Intel develops integrated silicon and platform solutions, spanning board hardware, firmware, validation, signal and power integrity, PCB technology, manufacturing, and system integration. The role focuses on end-to-end platform hardware development, translating platform requirements into circuit, component, and PCB specifications for high-speed digital, analog, and mixed-signal boards. The engineer will work through architecture, schematic and PCB design, board bring-up, validation, debug, and cross-functional execution.
What you will do
- Translate platform level requirements into circuit level, component level, and PCB design requirements.
- Design and develop complex platform boards incorporating high speed digital, analog and mixed-signal circuitry considering board/system-level design tradeoffs during development.
- Own schematic development for assigned boards, subsystems, and functional blocks, including component definition and selection.
- Develop electrical solutions associated with processors/SoCs, FPGAs, memory, high-speed interfaces, voltage regulators, clocks, resets, control interfaces, and platform-management functions.
- Define PCB implementation requirements, including component placement, critical interfaces, routing rules, stack-up considerations, and other layout constraints.
- Work closely with PCB layout engineers and guide board implementation from feasibility through design release/tape-out while meeting multidisciplinary platform requirements.
- Review complex multilayer PCB designs for electrical performance, signal integrity, power integrity, manufacturability, and system requirements.
- Apply high speed transmission-line and layout principles to critical interfaces.
- Apply signal integrity and power integrity principles during board architecture, schematic design, component selection, and PCB implementation.
- Design and review power delivery architectures, voltage regulation, sequencing, power budgeting, and platform power distribution.
- Work with SI/PI specialists to analyze critical high speed interfaces and power delivery networks and incorporate analysis results into board design.
- Understand platform level trade-offs involving electrical performance, power, thermal constraints, PCB implementation, component availability, and manufacturability.
- Develop and execute board power-on, bring-up, validation, and characterization plans.
- Collaborate with architects, hardware engineers, validation engineers, firmware engineers, technicians, and other specialists during platform power-on and debug.
- Troubleshoot board and system level problems and perform systematic root cause analysis.
- Use laboratory equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, logic analyzers, and other measurement equipment for electrical characterization and debug. Analyze failures, determine root causes, implement corrective actions, and drive issues to technical closure.
- Collaborate with silicon, firmware, validation, SI/PI, mechanical, thermal, PCB layout, manufacturing, supplier, and program teams.
- Incorporate feedback from verification, validation, manufacturing, and other stakeholders into hardware development and design improvements.
- Support PCB fabrication, assembly, design-for-manufacturability, design-for-test, and hardware readiness.
- Create and maintain design specifications, schematics, review documentation, design checklists, bring-up plans, validation reports, and other technical collateral.
- Own assigned hardware deliverables and proactively identify technical, component, manufacturing, and schedule risks.
Skills used in this role
CadenceAllegroConcept HDLPCIeDDR/LPDDRUSBEthernetFPGASoCVerilogPythonPCB DesignSchematic CaptureSignal IntegrityPower IntegrityPower DeliveryVoltage RegulationTransmission LineDFM/DFTBOM ManagementHardware DebuggingRoot Cause AnalysisCommunicationProblem SolvingCross-Functional Collaboration
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 relevant hands-on industry experience in platform hardware, board-level product development, PCB design, or related hardware engineering.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with PCB design, schematic capture, component definition/selection, and interaction with PCB layout teams.
- Strong fundamentals in digital and analog board design, electrical interfaces, mixed-signal design, and platform power-on.
- Experience with high density, multilayer board design and high speed PCB implementation.
- Understanding of high speed interfaces, transmission line fundamentals, signal integrity, and power integrity.
- Knowledge of voltage regulation, power delivery, clocking, resets, and sequencing.
- Experience with industry standard schematic capture and PCB design/review tools like Cadence environments including Allegro and Concept HDL alongside other industry-standard design environments.
- Hands-on experience with board power-on, bring-up, electrical measurement, hardware debugging, and root-cause analysis.
- Strong problem solving, communication, technical documentation, and cross functional collaboration skills.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience designing complex compute, server, client, validation, FPGA based, or semiconductor development platforms.
- Experience with high speed I/O and memory interfaces such as PCIe, DDR/LPDDR, USB, Ethernet, or comparable technologies.
- Working knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, transmission line theory, impedance control, crosstalk, PCB stack-up, and power distribution networks.
- Experience with SI/PI, circuit, or power simulation tools.
- Experience with board-level power delivery, basic Verilog coding, power budgeting, voltage regulation, sequencing, and power integrity.
- Knowledge of PCB fabrication, board assembly, DFM/DFT, manufacturing flows, and component/BOM management.
- Experience taking hardware through multiple stages of the lifecycle from design through PCB implementation, fabrication, assembly, bring-up, validation, and deployment.
- Working experience in integrating the AI-based tools and agents in regular workflow
- Familiarity with scripting or automation, such as Python, for hardware development, validation, or debug is an added advantage.
- Experience working effectively with geographically distributed engineering teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.
Benefits and support
- Hybrid work model allowing employees to split time between on-site work at the assigned Intel site and off-site work.
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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Pushkar Ranade
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Naga Chandrasekaran
Executive Vice President – Chief Technology and Operations Officer, General Manager Intel Foundry
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