Senior Platform Hardware Design Engineer

Overview

Senior Platform Hardware Design Engineer providing technical leadership for the architecture, design, integration, bring-up, and validation of complex platform hardware within Intel's Silicon and Platform Engineering Group.

What you'll 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.

What you'll need

• 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.

Nice to have

• 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.

Details

• Job type: Experienced Hire.
• Shift: Shift 1 (India).
• Location: India, Bangalore.
• Work model: Hybrid, splitting time between on-site work at the assigned Intel site and off-site.
• Position of trust: N/A.