Platform Power and Performance Architect

Job Details:

Job Description: 

We create world-changing technology that improves the life of every person on the planet. Intel delivers silicon by applying reach, scale, and resources to deliver bold goals. And we're not doing it alone: we work with our customers and galvanize the industry for positive impact.

Our small team of accomplished researchers and architects shape the global PC ecosystem everyday - setting the standards, norms, and infrastructure for the entire client ecosystem. We begin with research by exploring the main questions: how people interact with technology, how it can enhance people's lives, and what are the most compelling experiences. Next, we translate those experiences into a set of technical requirements and capabilities: IPs, SoCs, Software, Packaging and Platform.

Finally, we have the privilege of leading teams from across Intel to bring these technologies to market with our advanced factories, our partners, and customers from across the world selling hundreds of millions of units every year.

• Develops and drives end to end platform architecture by owning the architectural specification of the platform or board. Translates requirements, key performance, and key experience indicators into platform architecture encompassing hardware, software, SoCs, and other components designed to support a variety of systems, solutions, and applications.

• Drives technical readiness of prototype platform design, creates design specification, develops block diagrams and/or high level designs, and specifies key components, as needed, to meet platform requirements including platform mechanical and thermal architecture.

•  Invents, conceptualizes, and specifies architectural features for next generation platforms and makes product technology and platform tradeoff decisions ensuring platforms conform to standards, specifications, and landing zones.

• Provides experimental and proof of concept solutions for proposing design alternatives that meet performance, power, area, and timing constraints.

•  Reviews, challenges, and influences cross functional roadmaps and technology targets. Collaborates with other architects, design engineers, and validation engineers to improve the overall design of platform and overcome constraints.

Behavioral traits that we are looking for:

• Excellent in written and verbal communications skills, influencing skills, and ability to inspire organizational commitment.

• Demonstrate Leadership skills, self-motivated, persistent, and resilient with the ability to operate in face of ambiguity.

Qualifications:

Minimum qualifications are required to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidate.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 9+ years of relevant experience OR

• Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of relevant experience OR

• PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of relevant experience

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Relevant Experience in:

• Computing system architecture, processor architecture, processor micro-architecture, workload decomposition

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Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Client PC computing power and performance management architectures.

• Demonstrated understanding of Intel platform architecture and firmware flows.

Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and or schoolwork/classes/research.

Job Type:Experienced Hire

Shift:Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location: US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Additional Locations:US, California, Folsom

Business group:The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.

Posting Statement:All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.Position of TrustN/A

Benefits:

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation.  Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here:

https://jobs.intel.com/en/benefits

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US:

$186,070.00-$262,680.00

Salary range dependent on a number of factors including location and experience.

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.