Come and join us. Intel is seeking highly qualified candidates to join our Intel Foundry Services (IFS) as a PPA Design Engineer

About the Group:

As an integral part of Intel's new IDM2.0 strategy, we are establishing Intel Foundry Services (IFS), a fully vertical, standalone foundry business, reporting directly to the CEO. IFS will be a world-class foundry business and major provider of US and European-based capacity to serve customers globally. Intel Foundry Services will be differentiated from other Foundry offerings with a combination of leading-edge packaging and process technology, committed capacity in the US and Europe - available for customers globally - and a world-class IP portfolio that customers can choose from including x86 cores, graphics, media, display, AI, interconnect, fabric and other critical foundational IP, along with Arm and RISC-V ecosystem IPs. IFS will also provide access to silicon design services to help our customers seamlessly turn silicon into solutions, using industry standard design packages. This business unit is completely dedicated to the success of its customers with full P and L responsibilities. This model will ensure that our foundry customers products will receive our utmost focus in terms of service, technology enablement and capacity commitments. IFS is already engaged with customers today starting with our existing foundry offerings and we are expanding imminently to include our most advanced technologies, which are optimized for cutting-edge performance, making them ideal for high-performance applications.

About the Role:

Intel Foundry Services is looking for software engineers to collaborate with PPA design engineers to benchmark power, performance, and area (PPA) for Foundry process technology nodes on Industry standard ARM IPs along with Intel architectures - to allow foundry customers to evaluate technology PPA offerings in a systematic way.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
On this team you will research machine learning (ML) algorithms to provide Intel with the latest offerings in this extremely fast changing space. You will also build services and APIs to allow efficient and safe access to the ML algorithms which will enable the creation of visualizations to help customers analyze their results to achieve their desired outcomes. And, you will be working closely with hardware engineers in debugging and analyzing their model performance. It is an exciting time and with your skill and expertise we can help create the next generation technology which will shape our future

Qualifications

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

The candidate must possess a focus on Machine Learning or related Engineering disciplines; Using modern machine learning frameworks scikit-opt and scikit-learnData structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design patterns Python3 and its related APIs

Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or related field plus 5 years of industry work experience, or

• Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or related field plus 2 years of industry work experience, or

• PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or related field plus 1 year of related work experience.

In addition to related and Industry experience;

• Has good software and scripting skills (Perl, Tcl, Python)

• Has a good understanding of industry standards in leading edge technology nodes

• Proficiency in physical design from synthesis through signoff (Synopsys or Cadence)

• Experience with the one or more of the following (more than one preferred):

• MongoDB and/or PostgreSQL

• Javascript, HTML, Typescript, and/or React.js

• Tensorflow and/or AutoML

Preferred:

• Background in optimization algorithms, active learning, Bayesian machine learning

• Experience in developing service-oriented, microservice, multi-tiered and distributed architectures

• Analytical expertise in using R, building visualizations, debugging, and diagnosing machine learning models

• Semiconductor industry experience

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience performing feasibility or technology pathfinding

As the world's largest chip manufacturer, Intel strives to make every facet of semiconductor manufacturing state-of-the-art -- from semiconductor process development and manufacturing, through yield improvement to packaging, final test and optimization, and world class Supply Chain and facilities support.  Employees in the Technology Development and Manufacturing Group are part of a worldwide network of design, development, manufacturing, and assembly/test facilities, all focused on utilizing the power of Moores Law to bring smart, connected devices to every person on Earth.

Other Locations

US, Arizona, Phoenix;US, California, Folsom;US, California, Santa Clara;US, North Carolina, Raleigh;US, Oregon, Hillsboro

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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.