Job Details:

Job Description: 

Intel’s AI SoC organization develops cutting-edge products powering a wide range of AI applications—from edge devices to data center accelerators. If you are an engineer with strong technical and communication skills who thrives in a fast-paced environment with abundant learning opportunities, this is your chance to shape the future of AI hardware.

Role Overview

As a Principal Design Engineer – AI SoC / Subsystem Lead, you will be responsible for defining, implementing, and validating complex SoC IP blocks and subsystems, ensuring they meet stringent power, performance, and security requirements. You will collaborate across architecture, verification, and physical design teams to deliver high-quality silicon for next-generation AI solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Evaluate trade-offs across features, performance targets, power constraints, and system limitations.

• Microarchitecture & RTL Development: Define and document microarchitecture for complex SoC IP blocks; implement RTL in Verilog/SystemVerilog, integrate at top level, and deliver synthesis- and timing-clean designs.

• Verification Collaboration: Partner with verification teams to ensure comprehensive coverage and robust validation of all design aspects.

• Timing & Physical Design Support: Develop and maintain timing constraints; guide physical design teams on synthesis, timing closure, and formal equivalence checks.

• Silicon Bring-Up: Drive post-silicon validation, debug, and performance analysis.

• Mentorship & Methodology: Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices for design methodology and quality.

Additional Responsibilities

• Perform quality checks across RTL, timing, and power convergence.

• Apply secure development practices to address security threat models and objectives.

• Collaborate with IP providers for integration and validation at the SoC level.

• Drive compliance for smooth IP-to-SoC handoff.

Additional Skills:

• Ability to lead projects, work cross-functionally, and deliver under tight schedules

• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science or related field with 10+ years of experience.

• 7+ years of experience in RTL design and implementation for ASIC/SoC development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to solve complex design challenges such as clock domain crossings, power optimization, and timing closure.

• Hands-on experience with SoC system integration and multicore CPU subsystem design.

• Strong knowledge of standard bus protocols (AXI, AHB, etc.) and embedded processor architectures.

• Expertise in high-speed and low-power design techniques.

• Proficiency in scripting (Python, TCL, etc.) for automation and design flow optimization.

• Familiarity with industry-standard EDA tools: HDL simulators (VCS, Questa, IES), lint tools (Spyglass), and FPGA prototyping tools (Xilinx Vivado, Altera Quartus II).

          

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location: 

US, California, Folsom

Additional Locations:

US, California, Santa Clara, US, Texas, Austin

Business group:

Intel makes possible the most amazing experiences of the future. You may know us for our processors. But we do so much more. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth. Harnessing the capability of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, we create value for our stockholders, customers, and society.

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, se