System and Hardware Enabling Engineer

Job Details

Job Description:

Intel Edge Computing Engineering Team is on a mission to enable successful ODMs and customers in India to develop differentiated Edge products based on Intel technologies.

The team is looking for an experienced Digital Design Engineer with strong board-level hardware design, design-review, hardware-enabling and debug expertise to support customers developing platforms based on Intel Core and Atom processors.

The engineer will work closely with customer hardware teams through the complete board design and enabling lifecycle, including schematic design and review, high-speed interface implementation, PCB layout review, prototype board bring-up, hardware debug, root-cause analysis and resolution of design issues.

The role requires strong hands-on knowledge of processor-based digital hardware design and the ability to independently review and debug complex customer boards.

The engineer will also provide periodic technical training to customers and proactively support customer design-review, board-debug and technical-support requests to help accelerate successful product development.

Key Responsibilities

1.

Board-Level Digital Design and Review

Support board-level digital hardware design and conduct detailed design reviews for customer products based on Intel Core and Atom processors.

2.

Schematic Review

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.

3.

Digital Interface Design

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.

4.

PCB Layout Review

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.

5.

High-Speed Digital Design

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.

6.

Component Selection and Implementation

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.

7.

Board Bring-Up and Debug

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.

8.

Hands-On Lab Debug

Use lab debug equipment such as oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, I2C/SMBus tools and programmers to isolate and resolve hardware issues.

9.

Root-Cause Analysis

Analyze hardware debug data to identify root causes, differentiate between schematic, PCB-layout, component, assembly, manufacturing and configuration-related issues, and recommend corrective actions.

10.

Customer Issue Resolution

Actively support and drive resolution of customer technical issues, design-review requests and board-debug requests on an ongoing and periodic basis, working with customers from problem definition through root-cause identification and closure.

11.

Customer Technical Training

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.

12.

Customer Hardware Enabling

Provide hands-on technical guidance to customer hardware engineers during schematic design, PCB development, prototype bring-up, EVT/DVT and initial product-enabling phases.

13.

Cross-Functional Issue Resolution

Collaborate with Intel silicon, platform, validation, BIOS/Firmware and other engineering teams when customer hardware issues require cross-functional investigation and resolution.

14.

Technical Communication

Effectively communicate design-review findings, technical risks, debug results and recommended corrective actions to customer and internal engineering teams.

15.

Design Best Practices

Develop and maintain hardware design-review checklists, debug procedures, technical training materials, design best practices and lessons learned for reuse across customer programs.

16.

Customer Engagement

Periodically engage with customer engineering teams to review active designs, understand technical issues and provide timely engineering support throughout their product-development lifecycle.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 ED