Hardware Platform Applications Engineer - Military & Aerospace

About the position

When you join Intel, you become part of a global organization with big ambitions. Our employees have had a profound influence on the world by creating radical innovations that revolutionize the way we live. We are driven by our purpose: To create world-changing technology that improves the life of every person on the planet. We develop technologies that bring down barriers and enable tomorrow's greatest scientific breakthroughs and cultural achievements. In this position, you will be joining the Intel Government Technologies Customer Engineering team as a Hardware Platform Applications Engineer (PAE). This is an exciting organization with a revamped roadmap looking to expand Intel's footprint into the military and aerospace market.

Responsibilities

  • Directly engaging customers to provide support for customer developed systems including providing on-site power on support
  • Participating in the defining and development of Proof-of-Concept systems (and demos)
  • Replicating and debugging customer reported platform issues
  • Development and presentation of technical collateral to customers, ecosystem providers, and the sales channel
  • Working directly with platform and chipset software architects to develop and finalize platform hardware requirements
  • Participate in new product and program meetings
  • Participate in customer platform schematic and layout reviews
  • Provide support to analysis teams in the context of field quality return issues
  • Making use of laboratory measurement equipment during debug activities
  • Operate Linux based machines and tools in-order-to build and flash SW components and facilitate debug activities

Requirements

  • US Citizenship required
  • Ability to obtain a US Government Security Clearance
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or in a related field of study
  • 3+ years of end-to-end platform hardware (board) design experience, covering circuit design, schematic capture, platform design guideline creation, and bring-up/power-on debug

Nice-to-haves

  • Active US Government Security Clearance, with a minimum of Secret level
  • Post Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or in a related field of study
  • Experience building technical relationships with customers
  • Experience communicating technical concepts and ideas with external military and aerospace customers
  • Experience leading a hardware or software power-on effort on-site with a customer, including debug of power-on boot flows and debug of CPU interfaces
  • Strong lab debug skills including the ability to use lab tools including debuggers, protocol analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers
  • Experience performing signal integrity and/or power integrity simulations on customer designs
  • Experience with Intel power delivery architecture and general SoC bring-up challenges
  • Experience working with Government sponsor agencies and members of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB)

Benefits

  • competitive pay
  • stock bonuses
  • health
  • retirement
  • vacation
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