Platform Hardware design Engineer

Overview

Hands-on Platform Hardware Design Engineer role within Intel's Silicon and Platform Engineering Group, translating platform-level requirements into circuit, component and PCB designs through to bring-up, validation and delivery.

What you'll 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.
• Own schematic development for assigned boards, subsystems, and functional blocks, including component definition and selection.
• Develop electrical solutions for 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.
• 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 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, validation, firmware 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.

What you'll need

• 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 such as Cadence 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.

Nice to have

• 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 AI-based tools and agents in regular workflow.
• Familiarity with scripting or automation, such as Python, for hardware development, validation, or debug.
• Experience working effectively with geographically distributed engineering teams, suppliers, and manufacturing partners.

Details

• Location: India, Bangalore (Shift 1, India).
• Experienced hire.
• Hybrid work model: split time between on-site at the assigned Intel site and off-site.