When
- Fulltime: Jan & May
- Interns: Jan & May (6mo internships preferred)
Engineering Jobs
Listed (Silicon to Solid-State Drive
System)
Device & Process Integration, Logic Design, Mixed Signal Design, IO
Design, CAD / Design Automation,
Product, Test, Device-System
Integration, Firmware, Validation, System Quality & Relibility, System
Product
Business Group Overview
Employees in Intel's NVM Solutions Group deliver solutions for the
worlds fast growing semiconductor segment, non-volatile memories. They invent, develop and bring to market and
support customers with leading-edge NAND flash memory and system level
solutions based on NAND flash memory. These
products are used in a wide range of applications such as Notebooks, Smartphones,
Datacenter Servers and many other applications. Our products make people’s lives better by
giving them unprecedented access to information, compelling entertainment and
improve the PC platform in ways never imagined a few years ago. This dynamic group is strategically positioned
to become one of the leading Non-Volatile memory suppliers in the world and is
a key to expanding markets and continuing the growth for Intel.
You will be developing solutions to problems utilizing formal education and
judgment. We are looking for someone who is passionate about working in a
small, dynamic environment where the expectation is we contribute in any
activity that makes the business successful.
Device & Process
Integration Engineers
Candidate must possess a PhD, in the field or electrical engineering with a
focus on device physics and solid state component technology.
Additional Qualifications:
- Semiconductor Physics and device reliability physics to design, characterize
and model device performance
- Semiconductor Manufacturing and Process knowledge to work with process and
integration engineering for process module target specification
- Digital and analog circuit knowledge to
work with design engineering for device target specification
Responsibility:
Successful candidate will work with engineers and technologists to develop
compelling technical solutions for advanced Non-Volatile Memory technology like
NAND, phase change, resistive RAM, etc.
(S)he will use process and device simulation tools to design and build
devices, develop the required process and use the characterization data to
understand and enhance them. (S)he will
develop new test structures, characterization techniques and test algorithms to
improve device and process understanding.
(S)he will interface with the design, product and system engineering
teams to understand the critical product needs and develop.
Logic Designer
Candidate must possess a Bachelor's or a Master's degree in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
Additional Qualifications:
- Understanding of digital electronics, logic design and verification
- Knowledge of digital design methodologies and tool flow
- Knowledge of custom logic based logic design
- Knowledge of HW description language and logic simulation
- Knowledge of synthesis and static timing analysis
Mixed Signal Designer
Candidate must possess a Bachelor’s or a Master's degree in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
Additional Qualifications:
- Knowledge in analog circuit design, I/O circuit design, Differential Amps
- Knowledge in solid state physics, VLSI design
Preferred Skills:
- VLSI fabrication experience
- Non-Volatile Memory design experience
IO Designer
Candidate must possess a Bachelor's or a Master's degree in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
Additional Qualifications:
- Knowledge in multi GT/s interfaces; ie PCIe, QPI, DDR, etc
- Knowledge in the design of PLL, DLL, high speed clock distribution and power
delivery
- Knowledge in solid state physics, VLSI design
Preferred Skills:
- VLSI fabrication experience
- Non-Volatile Memory design experience
Responsibilities
Component Design Engineers are responsible for the design and development of
electronic components. Responsibilities
may include the design of chip layout circuit design, circuit checking, device
evaluation & characterization, documentation of specifications, prototype
construction & checkout, modification & evaluation of semiconductor
devices & components, performing developmental and/or test work, reviewing
product requirements & logic diagrams, planning & organizing design
projects or phases of design projects.
Responds to customer/client requests or events as they occur.
CAD / Design
Automation Engineer
In this position, you will interact with multiple Intel Business Groups
requesting Design Automation support services (CAD) aligned with external EDA tools
and flows leading today’s semiconductor industry.
Candidate must possess a Bachelor's or a Master's degree in
Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
Additional Qualifications:
- Knowledge of various Electronic Design Automation (EDA) softward, flows and
architecture
- Knowledge of Integrated Circuit (IC) simulation tools and related
methodologies
- Knowledge of front-to-back flows with focus on analog and mixed signal
solutions
- Knowledge of Cadence DFII* environment such as Schematic Composer and
Virtuoso Layout Editor
- Knowledge of multiple CAD flows:
backend, frontend, custom, digital, collateral (PDK, FDK)
- Knowledge of CMOS processing and device physics
- Knowledge of UNIX and data-management software
Preferred Skills:
- Knowledge in C++ / C shell*, Perl, Skill* and/or Python programming
Responsibilities
In this position, you will be part of the Centralized Design Automation team
(CDAO) working on the development and support of next generation IC design
flows. You may be responsible for tool
evaluation, selection, support, collateral (PDK, FDK) or flow development for
the NVM Solutions Group or other Intel engineering groups.
Product
Engineer, Test Engineer
Candidate must possess a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
Additional Qualifications:
- Demonstrate experience in semiconductor device physics, strong programming
skills, semiconductor testing
- Demonstrate experience (academic or job related) with Flash, SRAM, SDRAM
Memory Components in the area of circuit design, fab processing
Responsibilities
Ensuring the testability and manufacturability of integrated circuits from
the component feasibility stage through production ramp. Following are examples of activities in which
Product Development Engineers make significant contributions: Design,
development and validation of testability circuits. Evaluation, development and debug of complex
test methods. Development and debug of
complex software programs to convert design validation vectors and drive
complex test equipment. Development and debug of test patterns for Cache
arrays, structural patterns for scan based design and functional (AV) patterns
for component debug, validation and production test. Design and debug of validation and production
test hardware solutions. Integrated
Circuit debug, validation and redesign to guarantee component margin to spec. Analysis of component specification versus
performance to ensure optimal match of component requirements with production
equipment capability with specific emphasis on yield analysis and bin split
capability. Analysis of early customer
returns with emphasis on test hole closure activities. Optimization of component production relative
to both quality and cost constraints. Plans
and schedules daily tasks, develops solutions to problems utilizing formal
education and judgment based on standard practices.
Device-System
Integration
In this position, you will interact work with the System engineering team to
integrate the fundamental device technology requirements (ie media management
of raw bit error rate).
Candidates must possess a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer
Engineering or Computer Science.
Additional Qualifications:
- Demonstrate experience in computer programming, especially an ability to
process and analyze large amounts of data and familiarity with related tools /
techniques
- Demonstrate understanding of principles of statistics and familiarity with
error detection and correction codes used in applications such as Hard Disk
Drives and Solid State Drives
- Demonstrate familiarity with physics and characterization of electronic
devices and related circuit models
- Demonstrate experience in technical problem solving capability and good
teamwork, leadership and communication skills
Preferred skills:
- Experience working with Non-Volatile Memory like NAND, phase change,
resistive RAM, etc or related
applications such as Solid State Drives
- Experience working with error detection and correction codes
- Experience working with large databases
Firmware Engineer,
Validation Engineer, System Quality & Relibility Engineer, System Product
Engineer
NOTE: Different jobs,
but the below description is being used to describe the core aspects of the
positions.
In this position, you will be part of the Systems
Engineering team responsible for firmware development, validation, or quality
assurance for high-performance Solid State storage products.
Candidates must possess a Bachelor or a Master of Science
degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science.
Additional Qualifications:
- Demonstrate experience in software design and C/C++ development skills,
object oriented thinking and design for modularity/extensibility
- Demonstrate experience in or knowledge of high-performance low-level system
software development, embedded multitasking applications, and embedded system
tool chains and debug methodology
-You should have the ability to write in scripting and programming languages
for specific experimental data and data analysis for storage controllers.
- Analysis and reporting of the data requires strong analytical and
communication skills.
Preferred skills:
- Experience or strong desire to develop expertise in Non-Volatile Memory /
NAND algorithms using methodical/quantitative approach design, prototype, data collection/analysis,
refine
- Demonstrate experience in storage systems and concepts, storage interfaces,
flash management, BIOS/OROM, and storage drivers
- Demonstrate experience with ARM* or XScale* development and architecture,
and/or experience with Flash memory
