System and Hardware Enabling Engineer

Intel Intel · Semiconductors · Penang, Malaysia

Intel is seeking a Systems and Hardware Enabling Engineer to work on the development, validation, and optimization of cutting-edge products. The role involves defining platform requirements, component selection, circuit definition, board bring-up, and testing. It also includes providing technical support to customers, creating technical collateral, evaluating and developing new tools, integrating customer feedback, and ensuring smooth product ramps. The position requires extensive experience in hardware design, board debugging, and Intel architecture, with a strong understanding of the end-to-end hardware flow and cross-functional team collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Working with Platform Architects to define platform requirements and board strategies, component selection, circuit definition and design, platform bring-up and testing in addition to interfacing with cross-functional teams to oversee all aspects of the hardware design.
  2. Provides technical support to customers for solutions that incorporate one or more Intel products and technologies, helping customers to deliver quality design, accelerating overall design cycle and time to market readiness
  3. Provides technical and issue resolution support during development, testing, and production cycle
  4. Creates product application notes, user guides, whitepaper and other supporting technical collateral for better customer support reference to help customer design easily with Intel
  5. Evaluates and develops new tools/ software to improve overall efficiency that optimize product quality and performance.

Skills

Required

  • Electrical / Electronic Engineering or Computer Engineering degree
  • 7+ years of experience on hardware design, board debugging, bring-up and testing on Intel architecture
  • Implementing a design from requirements documentation/block diagrams
  • Familiarity of end-to-end hardware flow - product requirements, logical design, physical design, manufacturing, platform bring-up and testing
  • Experience interacting with cross-functional teams (Signal/Power Integrity, Thermal/Mechanical, PCB Layout, Manufacturing, Package, Validation, Software, Silicon)
  • Familiar with circuit design/ circuit theory, understanding of electrical component and characteristics
  • Familiar/ Hands-on experience with lab tools (oscilloscopes, analyzers, multimeter)
  • Excellence in communication (verbal and written)
  • Basic understanding of software programming language and scripts (Python, etc.)

Nice to have

  • 3+ Experience with Cadence Concept
  • Familiarity with Cadence System Capture and Allegro
  • Understanding of the PCB layout process and basic layout-affecting principles such as board stack-up, manufacturability, SI, PI, EMI, EMC, ESD

What the JD emphasized

  • 7+ years of experience on hardware design
  • end-to-end hardware flow