Signal Integrity Engineer

Intel Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 139,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel Corporation is seeking a Signal Integrity Engineer to join their Power and Signal Integrity Group. This role involves developing hardware solutions for next-gen GPUs, ensuring high-quality signal integrity, and collaborating with diverse teams to create innovative products. The position offers competitive compensation and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Competitive pay

Stock options

Health benefits

Retirement plans

Vacation

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Signal Integrity with Bachelor's.
• 2+ years of experience in Signal Integrity with Master's.
• Knowledge of Silicon, Package, and PCB layouts.

Responsibilities

• Delivers signal integrity solutions for complex high-speed platforms.
• Defines signal integrity rules and improves design margins.
• Collaborates with design teams to meet product requirements.

Skills

Signal Integrity

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Spice

ADS

Ansys HFSS

Cadence PowerSI

Synopsys HSpice

Keysight ADS

Job description

**Job Details:**

**Job Description:**

Are you passionate about ensuring high-quality power and signal integrity solution in cutting-edge heterogeneous SoCs for high-power discrete graphics products? Disrupting the industry with your innovation? Working with leading graphics hardware engineers on Intel's latest GPU/CPU architecture? Do you love collaborating with diverse teams to help achieve best-in-class visual experiences that enable users to immerse themselves in a new visual future? Then Intel's Power and Signal Integrity Group within Graphics Organization has opportunities for you.

If you join the team, you will develop hardware and graphics solutions for Intel products including the newest IPs targeted at next gen GPUs. You will have the opportunity to participate as a signal integrity engineer in enabling technologies in the areas of high-power processors with high-speed IO interfaces and design solutions. We are a winning team with a clear vision of delivering competitive and cutting-edge products, and we care about building the best products and the best skills for our team.

Intel Corporation's state of the art facilities gives you the opportunity to learn a variety of technical and operational skills to develop, operate, maintain, and repair the world’s most advanced facility equipment, in a demanding and challenging operations environment.

Life at Intel link: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/jobs/life-at-intel.html

**As a Signal Integrity Engineer, your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:**

+ Delivers signal integrity solutions for large, complex high speed platforms, boards, and packages.

+ Develops a viable space for all interconnects including 2D and 3D models extracts of electrical structures for the entire die to die interconnect.

+ Defines signal integrity rules, reviews implementation, documents characterization and measurement reports, and improves and optimizes design margins.

+ Applies knowledge of signal integrity design and tradeoffs to perform simulations of interconnect and guide package and platform physical implementation, and designs and characterizes test structures to correlate simulations and measurements for interconnects using intricate highspeed equipment and debugs challenges.

+ Develops electrical specifications and new industry standard interconnect specifications to guide consortiums for next generation interfaces.

+ Documents and provides implementation guidelines to the end customers as part of the platform design guide.

+ Collaborates with IP design teams and silicon integration teams to ensure the IP and SoC designs maximize the platform level solution space to meet targeted product landing zone requirements and minimize quality degradation (e.g., attenuation, crosstalk, jitter, power noise) and cost.

**Behavioral traits that we are looking for:**

+ Good communication skills and ability to document and share findings with others

Intel invests in our people and offers a complete and competitive package of benefits employees and their families through every stage of life.

See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/jobs/benefits.html for more details.

**Qualifications:**

You must possess the below minimum qualifications 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 candidates.

**Minimum skills and experience that will get you noticed:**

+ Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 3+ years of experience in Signal Integrity

+ **OR** a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 2+ years of experience in Signal Integrity

**Preferred skills and experience that will make you stand out** :

+ Knowledge of Silicon, Package and PCB layouts and SI design practices

+ Good understanding of transmission line and network theory, microwave engineering

+ Expertise in circuit simulation with Spice, ADS and EMextractions with commercially available solvers from Ansys HFSS, Q3D, Cadence PowerSI, Synopsys HSpice and Keysight ADS

+ Familiarity with DDR and SERDES interfaces, such as LPDDR5/5x/6, GDDR6/7, PCIe Gen5/6, HDMI, eDP, I3C, SVID, etc.

+ Basic understanding of EMI/RFI theory and analysis

+ Experienced in full channel analysis in frequency and time domain for DDR and SERDES interfaces

**Job Type:**

Experienced Hire

**Shift:**

Shift 1 (United States of America)

**Primary Location:**

US, California, Folsom

**Additional Locations:**

US, California, Santa Clara

**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 Trust**

N/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://intel.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/page/1025c144664a100150b4b1...

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

$139,710.00-$197,230.00

**S** **al** **ary** **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.