System and Hardware Enabling Engineer

Overview

Support customers developing Intel Core and Atom processor-based platforms through board-level digital hardware design review, enabling, bring-up and debug.

What you'll do

• Support board-level digital hardware design and conduct detailed design reviews for customer products based on Intel Core and Atom processors.
• Review customer schematics against Intel Platform Design Guides, reference schematics, datasheets, design checklists and other technical collateral, and identify potential design issues before PCB fabrication.
• Review processor interfaces and associated circuitry, including DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR4/LPDDR5 memory; PCIe; USB; SATA; DisplayPort/eDP/HDMI and other display interfaces; Ethernet and connectivity interfaces; I2C/SMBus, SPI, UART and GPIO; and clock, reset, boot/configuration straps and other platform control signals.
• Review multilayer PCB stack-up and board layout implementation for processor-based platforms, including controlled impedance, high-speed routing, length matching, differential-pair routing, reference planes, via structures and signal-return paths for compliance with Intel layout guidelines and industry best practices.
• Perform detailed schematic and layout reviews of high-speed digital interfaces, particularly DDR, PCIe and USB, and recommend corrective actions based on Intel design guidelines and sound high-speed digital design practices.
• Support selection and design implementation of board-level digital components including memory devices, clock devices, level translators, buffers, multiplexers, switches, retimers, interface controllers and supporting logic.
• Drive and support customer board bring-up, including initial power-on, processor initialization, boot failures, memory initialization issues, high-speed interface failures and other board-level hardware issues.
• Use lab debug equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, I2C/SMBus tools and programmers to isolate and resolve hardware issues.
• Analyze hardware debug data to identify root causes, differentiate between schematic, PCB-layout, component, assembly, manufacturing and configuration-related issues, and recommend corrective actions.
• Actively support and drive resolution of customer technical issues, design-review requests and board-debug requests on an ongoing and periodic basis, from problem definition through root-cause identification and closure.
• Develop and deliver periodic technical training sessions and workshops for customer engineering teams covering Intel processor-based board design, hardware design guidelines, high-speed interfaces, schematic/layout best practices, board bring-up and debug methodologies.
• Provide hands-on technical guidance to customer hardware engineers during schematic design, PCB development, prototype bring-up, EVT/DVT and initial product-enabling phases.
• Collaborate with Intel silicon, platform, validation, BIOS/Firmware and other engineering teams when customer hardware issues require cross-functional investigation and resolution.
• Communicate design-review findings, technical risks, debug results and recommended corrective actions effectively to customer and internal engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain hardware design-review checklists, debug procedures, technical training materials, design best practices and lessons learned for reuse across customer programs.
• Periodically engage with customer engineering teams to review active designs, understand technical issues and provide timely engineering support throughout their product-development lifecycle.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, with 8 to 12 years of relevant industry experience, preferably including substantial hands-on experience in processor-based board design and debug.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and debugging complex multilayer digital boards, preferably using Intel Core/Atom or similar high-performance processor/SoC platforms.
• Experience in schematic capture and review using industry-standard EDA tools such as Cadence OrCAD/Allegro, Siemens/Mentor Graphics Xpedition or equivalent.
• Strong experience in processor-based schematic design/review, including CPU/SoC interfaces, DDR memory, PCIe, USB, SATA, display interfaces, Ethernet/connectivity, clock/reset, SPI/I2C/SMBus/UART/GPIO, and boot and configuration circuitry.
• Strong understanding of high-speed digital board design principles, including controlled impedance, differential signaling, termination, propagation delay, length/skew matching, crosstalk, return-path discontinuities and via effects.
• Experience with 8 to 16+ layer PCB designs, PCB stack-ups and placement/routing reviews for complex processor platforms.
• Ability to interpret and apply processor datasheets, platform design guides, reference schematics, layout guidelines and hardware design checklists to customer hardware designs.
• Strong hands-on experience with board bring-up and hardware failure analysis, particularly processor boot, memory initialization and high-speed interface issues.
• Experience using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers and other board-level debug tools.
• Good understanding of PCB fabrication, assembly processes, DFM/DFT considerations and hardware failure mechanisms.
• Ability to independently analyze complex board-level problems, perform root-cause analysis and drive technical issues toward corrective action and closure.
• Ability to work directly with customers, manage multiple concurrent design-review and debug requests, and provide timely technical support.
• Strong technical presentation and communication skills with the ability to conduct technical training and workshops for customer engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Experience designing, reviewing or supporting boards based on Intel Core or Atom processors.
• Experience with embedded and Edge compute designs such as COM Express, COM-HPC, 3.5-inch SBC, Mini-ITX, embedded compute modules and custom industrial platforms.
• Hands-on experience with DDR4/DDR5/LPDDR memory design, layout review and debug.
• Experience reviewing high-speed interfaces such as PCIe Gen4/Gen5, USB 3.x/USB4, DisplayPort and high-speed Ethernet.
• Familiarity with industry-standard Signal Integrity analysis/simulation tools from Cadence, Siemens EDA or equivalent, with the ability to understand and interpret simulation results.
• Experience working directly with ODM/OEM/customer engineering teams during schematic review, PCB review, prototype board bring-up and technical issue resolution.
• Experience developing and delivering technical training, workshops or design-guideline sessions for hardware engineering teams.
• Strong customer-facing communication, problem-solving and technical presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel to customer locations across India on a need basis for design reviews, technical training, board bring-up and hardware debug support.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Travel to customer locations across India on a need basis to support hardware design reviews, customer technical training, board bring-up and debug activities.
• Shift 1 (India).
• Work model: on-site presence required.
• Experienced hire.