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Senior Staff Research Scientist

Intel
Santa Clara, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Aug 2025
💰 $250,160/yr($177,200/yr$250,160/yr)

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Job Details:

Job Description: 

Intel Government Technologies (IGT) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation, dedicated to managing Intel's business with governments worldwide. Our mission is to leverage Intel's cutting-edge technology and expertise to address the unique needs and challenges government agencies face. We collaborate across Intel's diverse teams to develop and execute innovative programs that support government operations and enhance public service delivery.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

  • Initiates the design, development, execution, and implementation of scientific research projects to fuel growth in computing, communication, memory, networking, intellectual property, and new business opportunities.
  • Apply scientific research principles and concepts to potential inventions and products in hardware engineering, developing the vision and value proposition, aligning strategy, and driving fast paced research and development to improve efficiency and meet timelines.
  • Utilizes advanced knowledge of computing, memory, IO, and/or network subsystems and hardware/software codesign principles to drive requirements and specifications for both hardware and software at the IP, SoC, platform, and system levels.
  • Conducts simulation, prototyping, and workload analysis to achieve performance/watt/dollar optimized system implementations.
  • Research technological trends, enables partnerships and collaboration among industry, academia, standards bodies, product, and other technical groups to address important technology and customer issues, and finds innovative solutions to difficult problems for midterm or long-term time frames.
  • Influences external research, disseminates results, and raises the profile of conducted research through scientific publications, patents, talks, and Intel internal or external outreach efforts.
  • Performs research to define boundaries and creates proof of concepts or prototypes new ideas including chips and competitive analysis versus industry trends.
  • Collaborates with customers to explore potential customer requirements in mid and long term, works with engineering design teams to determine product requirements and the feasibility of new technology adoption and integration.
  • Recommends features and influences future Intel product roadmap.

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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. Experience listed below would be obtained through a combination of your degree, research and or relevant previous job and or internship experiences. 

Minimum Qualifications:

  • This role requires the applicant to be a 'US Person,' which includes US citizens, lawful permanent residents, and other individuals or entities that meet the criteria set forth by US laws and regulations for purposes of compliance with federal export control and security requirements."
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), or similar field (e.g., Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering), or B.Sc/B.Eng with equivalent 4 years or M.Sc./M.Eng with equivalent 3 years of professional experience.

Minimum 3+ years of professional experience in one or more of the following:

o Micro-architecture definition and RTL development Networking or I/O integration Computer architecture, microprocessor or chip-set design methods

o Digital circuit design.

o High-level description language modeling of hardware (e.g., System Verilog)

o Place and route of digital designs to full-chip integration and tape out in a modern-day technology process.

o Hardware optimization for timing and area o Linux and Windows computer systems.

o Writing Linux shell scripts and general programming (e.g., Perl, shell, TCL and/or Python)

o Hardware and software debugging.

o Experience with commercial EDA tools for digital/mixed-signal hardware design.

This position is not eligible for Intel immigration sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with multi-die heterogeneous integration.
  • Experience with 2.5D / 3D die-to-die PHY and protocol interfaces.
  • Experience designing intelligent radar/radio IPs and platforms.
  • Ability to understand the broad portfolio of Intel's products, services, and technical capabilities and how they could be applied to create differentiated product-driven value for Government customers.
  • Excellently demonstrated written and verbal communications skills.

         

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