Ethernet System Integration Engineer (Ethernet)

Location: On-site in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

Annual salary: $105,650–$149,150 USD

Company

Intel's Central Engineering Group develops programmable Infrastructure Processing Unit and Foundation Network Interface Card solutions for cloud service providers.

What you will do

• Integrate firmware and hardware elements of 200G, 400G, 800G, and 1.6T Ethernet PHY subsystems.
• Design and develop systems combining software, firmware, boards, and silicon or SoC components.
• Define integration plans and deliver end-to-end solutions focused on performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and quality.
• Develop automated test environments, execute hands-on lab tests, benchmark systems, and analyze operating data.
• Debug internal and external customer issues and respond to customer requests.
• Conduct proof-of-concept experiments and feasibility studies for new system features.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related field.
• At least 2 years of experience developing software or firmware automated test environments and tools using Python, C, C++, Git, and shell scripts.
• At least 1 year of experience validating and characterizing IPs in standalone and full-chip environments.
• Experience analyzing results and debugging circuit boards with oscilloscopes, analyzers, and other advanced test equipment.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to work on-site in Hillsboro, Oregon.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or higher.
• Experience with high-speed Ethernet PAM4 SerDes and 802.3 Ethernet Physical Layer technologies.
• Experience reading PCB schematics and working with RTOS, firmware, software, IO tools, NVM configuration, or pre-silicon verification.
• Familiarity with I2C, MDIO, UART, Linux, and software-hardware interactions across firmware, device drivers, the Linux kernel, and user-space applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with silicon, hardware, firmware, software teams, and major cloud service providers.
• Competitive compensation with stock bonuses.
• Health, retirement, and vacation benefits.
• Shift 1 schedule in the United States.