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Do Something Wonderful!

Intel put the Silicon in Silicon Valley. No one else is this obsessed with engineering a brighter future. Every day, we create world changing technology that enriches the lives of every person on earth. So, if you have a big idea, let’s do something wonderful together. Join us, because at Intel, we are building a better tomorrow. Want to learn more? Visit our YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/Intel/videos) or the links below!

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Intel is shaping the future of technology to help create a better future for the entire world. Our work in pushing forward fields like AI, analytics, and cloud-to-edge technology is at the heart of countless innovations. With a career at Intel, you'll have the opportunity to use technology to power major breakthroughs and create enhancements that improve our everyday quality of life. Join us and help make the future more wonderful for everyone.

Intel Foundry Services (IFS) is an independent foundry business that is established to meet our customers' unique product needs. With the first Open System Foundry model in the world, our combined offerings of wafer fabrication, advanced process, and packaging technology, chiplet, software, robust ecosystem, and assembly and test capabilities help our customers build their innovative silicon designs and deliver full end-to-end customizable products from Intel's secure, resilient, and sustainable source of supply.

This job opportunity in IFS will be part of the Customer Solutions Engineering (CSE) group which is responsible for the portions of the system foundry that brings the best of Intel technologies to IFS customers, differentiating and accelerating their solutions from architecture to post-silicon validation.

As a Structural (Physical) Design Engineer Design your responsibilities include:

• Developing and supporting digital circuit design with cell libraries. Performing digital circuit design and simulation.

• Designing, developing, modifying, and evaluating digital electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for use in digital electronic equipment and other hardware systems.

• Determines design approaches and parameters. Performs digital circuit design, verification and layout, data path design and digital block synthesis, place and route, sign-off through tape-out.

The Structural (Physical) Design Engineer will exhibit behavioral traits that demonstrate Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills.

Strong communication and collaboration skills, including a willingness to work with others, and the ability to tolerate ambiguity and highly complex decision environments.

Qualifications

What we need to see (Minimum 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 candidates.

The candidate must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or Computer Science and 8+ years of experience -OR- a Master's Degree in Computer/Electrical Engineering or Computer Science and 6+ years of experience -OR- a PhD in Computer/Electrical Engineering or Computer Science and 3+ year of experience with the following:

• Experience with owning the full chip level and taping out multiple complex SoCs

• Hands-on experience with industry standard Cadence or Synopsys tool suite, and other Sign-off tools from Siemens (Mentor), Ansys etc.

• Hands on experience with Full-Chip and partition level physical design (APR digital logic).

• RTL to gds2 flow and basic device physics.

• Scripting with tcl, perl, shell etc. to solve the basic design problem.

• Internal flow development and understand nuances of Physical Design (Structural Design) flow.

• Experience with 7nm technology or below.

How to Stand out (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience with handling PDKs (Process Design Kit).

• Strong Experience with Floorplanning, PnR, CTS, different clocking techniques for skew and delay balancing, multiple clock complexity, time budgeting, timing closure techniques, PnR congestion analysis, resolving floorplanning issues, UPF (Low power design techniques), resolving formal verification, layout physical problems, design sign-off tools like and not limited to noise analysis, layout closure, timing and functional eco closure, IR drop analysis etc.

• Strong proficiency in PERL, tcl, and/or shell scripting.

• Good handle on Tape-out interaction with the foundry and worked on Post-Silicon activities.

• Exposure to various industry standard Physical Design and Sign-Off closure tools.

• Understanding of peer domains to Physical Design, viz., RTL, verification, DFx, post-Si etc.

Amazing Benefits

Here at Intel, we invest in our people. Beyond health, dental, and retirement benefits, Intel's benefits package includes 14 paid holidays per calendar year, three weeks of paid vacation, and four-week paid sabbatical every four years of employment. Intel also offers employees five bonuses per year dependent on overall company and personal performance, and an employee stock purchase program. Find more information about our Amazing Benefits here: https://jobs.intel.com/benefits

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Inside this Business Group

Intel Foundry is dedicated to transforming the global semiconductor industry by delivering cutting-edge silicon process and packaging technology leadership for the AI era. As stewards of Moore's Law, we innovate and foster collaboration within an extensive partner ecosystem to advance technologies and enable our customers to design leadership products. Our strategic investments in geographically diverse manufacturing capacities bolster the resilience of the semiconductor supply chain. Leveraging our technological prowess, expansive manufacturing scale, and a more sustainable supply chain, Intel Foundry empowers the world to deliver essential computing, server, mobile, networking, and automotive systems for the AI era. This position is part of the Foundry Services business unit within Intel Foundry, a customer-oriented service organization that is dedicated to the success of its customers with full P&L responsibilities. We ensure our foundry customers' products receive our utmost focus in terms of service, technology enablement and capacity commitments.

Other Locations

US, OR, Hillsboro; US, TX, Austin; US, AZ, Phoenix; US, CA, Santa Clara

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.

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 US, California: $162,041.00-$259,425.00

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

Working Model

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. In certain circumstances the work model may change to accommodate business needs.