Senior Platform Hardware Design Engineer

Job Details: Job Description: Position Overview As a Platform Hardware Design Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the architecture, design, integration, bring-up, and validation of complex platform hardware. You will drive hardware development end-to-end, translating high level system requirements into detailed circuit and component specifications and leading designs from architecture and schematic development through PCB implementation, board power-on, debugging, validation, and delivery. You will be expected to make platform level technical decisions, resolve complex and ambiguous multidisciplinary problems, lead critical design reviews, drive cross-functional alignment, mentor engineers, and influence hardware development practices across projects. Our Business Group You will be joining the Silicon and Platform Engineering Group (SPE), an organization at Intel committed to advancing Intel's mission of delivering world-class silicon and platform solutions. The group focuses on developing integrated systems that align with customer needs and support Intel's broader goals of leadership in technology innovation. SPE collaborates across diverse domains to ensure Intel platforms meet performance, reliability, and scalability requirements. Our work sits at the intersection of silicon, board hardware, firmware, validation, signal and power integrity, mechanical and thermal engineering, PCB technology, manufacturing, and system integration. Our senior hardware engineers have a broader responsibility than executing an individual design. They help establish platform architecture, guide implementation, identify and qualify appropriate hardware solutions, provide technical leadership during board power-on and debug, and lead resolution of schematic, layout, SI/PI, and hardware issues. Key Responsibilities Platform Architecture and End-to-End Technical Ownership • 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. Advanced Board Design and Technical Leadership • 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. High-Speed Design and SI/PI • 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 evalua