Ethernet Hardware Product Application Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Bangalore, India

This role is for an Ethernet Hardware Product Application Engineer at Intel, focusing on providing technical support for Intel's Ethernet products and technologies. Responsibilities include optimizing solutions, enabling ecosystem partners, developing design and validation tools, performing design reviews (schematic, board layout, signal integrity), creating technical collateral, and resolving customer technical issues during development, testing, and production. The role requires expertise in Ethernet architecture, interfaces, networking products, signal integrity, and analog circuit design. Familiarity with scripting languages like Python for test automation is a plus. The preferred qualifications mention an interest in learning AI/ML applications, but the core role is hardware engineering.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide technical support for Intel products and technologies, ensuring solutions are optimized and market-ready.
  2. Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to enable ecosystem readiness and integrate customer requirements.
  3. Develop and implement tools for product design, development, and validation to optimize quality and performance.
  4. Create technical collateral, including product specifications, hardware design guides, and application notes.
  5. Work closely with customers to resolve technical issues during development, testing, and production phases.

Skills

Required

  • Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 8+ years of relevant experience (or Master's with 7+ years)
  • Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) expertise
  • Networking domains expertise
  • Ethernet architecture
  • Ethernet interfaces
  • Network products knowledge
  • Signal integrity
  • Transmission line theory
  • Power integrity
  • Analog circuit design
  • High-speed signal processing

Nice to have

  • Windows and Linux Ethernet device drivers
  • Debug methodologies
  • Python for test automation
  • Advanced knowledge of IEEE 802.3 standards
  • Network product design experience
  • Ethernet SerDes interface design and debug
  • Intel system-level architecture (BMC, NCSI, I2C, IOSF, SMBUS, SPI)
  • Customer request management
  • Complex technical challenge resolution
  • Interpersonal and communication skills
  • Learning new technologies like AI, ML
  • Design and validation of networking products (LOMs, adapters, mezzanines, embedded form factors)

What the JD emphasized

  • Demonstrated expertise in Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) and networking domains
  • Proficiency in Ethernet architecture, interfaces, and network products
  • Experience in signal integrity, transmission line theory, power integrity, analog circuit design, and high-speed signal processing