Firmware / Embedded Student jobs at Intel

Join Intel and build a better tomorrow Intel is looking for awesome students who want to help create the next generation of technologies that will shape the future for decades to come. Intel Fab 25 offers you a collaborative, supportive, and exciting environment where the brightest minds in the world come together to achieve exceptional results. We give you opportunities to transform technology and create a better future by delivering amazing products and meeting emerging technological needs. You will be in a fast-paced and challenging environment performing functions associated with Wafer movement within the Oregon Factory. What You'll Gain: • Comprehensive knowledge about semiconductor fabrication plants known as Intel "Fabs." • Practical skills and hands-on experience with manufacturing tools and equipment. • A coveted experience with a leading semiconductor manufacturer, enhancing your credentials. This is a 2-year program and part-time position. Working hours will be 20-32 hours a week during the school year and up to 40 hours a week on breaks/summers; with flexible hours around a student's school schedule while still in alignment with one of the following factory shifts: • Shift 5: (Day): Sunday through Tuesday (every other Wednesday) 7:30 AM to 8:00 PM • Shift 7: (Day): Thursday through Saturday (every other Wednesday) 7:30 AM to 8:00 PM What You'll Do (and more): • The position will be hands-on, training on-site with factory floor presence. • Perform functions associated with all wafer production including operations, equipment, process, and training. • Run product in a safe and qualitative manner, multi-tasking, following procedures while executing to output goals. • Equipment maintenance, repair, troubleshooting, defect reduction, and other duties as required, supporting fab objectives. • Work from technical manuals, specifications, drawings/diagrams, and schematics, as well as follow, comprehend, and complete verbal and written instructions and procedures. • Deliver clear and concise status updates to peers and participate in resolving sustaining issues. • Communicate with people at different levels of the organization including module technicians, managers, engineers, and others as needed. Expectations: • Must be willing to lift 25 lbs. This position requires frequent standing, walking, bending, and reaching. • Spend most of the work time (more than 90 percent less break time) in a clean room environment working on equipment, processing wafers, and standing or sitting for extended periods of time. • Work in a clean room environment wearing a gown, hood, booties, safety glasses, and gloves for the duration of the shift. • Perform Preventative Maintenance or troubleshooting on production equipment. • Perform detailed visual inspection tasks. • Use job-specific fixtures, basic hand tools, and potentially airline-supplied respirators.Qualifications: You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Relevant experience can be obtained through schoolwork, classes and project work, internships, military training, and/or work experience. This position is not eligible for Intel immigration sponsorship. Minimum Requirements: • Currently enrolled in second year Microelectronics program pursuing an associate degree, Technical, orfields, with successful completion of foundational courses.• Available to work a minimum of 20 hours per week during factory operations. We offer flexible scheduling across day and night shifts with compressed work weeks (12-hour shifts, 3-4 days per week) to accommodate various life circumstancesPreferred Qualifications: • Completion of your first year Microelectronics courses preferably with a minimum 3.0 GPA.• Basic knowledge in any of the following areas: electronics, equipment troubleshooting, installation, repair, and operations. • Experience performing hands-on work such as auto repair, welding, soldering, robotics, and crafting. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who demonstrate: Problem-solving abilities, troubleshooting and technical aptitude • Willingness to learn and grow in a semiconductor manufacturing environment • Commitment to safety and quality standardsWorking Model This role will require an on-site presence.Shift 5 (United States of America)US, Oregon, Hillsboro
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This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

Job Description:

As a Senior Principal Engineer, you will architect and develop embedded software that directly interfaces with hardware components, including microcode, IP-specific firmware, FPGAs, and DSPs. You will play a critical role in defining the firmware architecture, partitioning functionality between hardware and software, and driving co-validation strategies. This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic vision, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams across silicon, platform, and software domains.

Key Responsibilities:

• Firmware Architecture & Development
  • Design and implement embedded firmware with direct hardware interaction.
  • Define and partition features and algorithms between firmware and hardware for optimal performance, power, and scalability.
• Silicon & Platform Collaboration
  • Collaborate with silicon architects to define hardware requirements and influence architectural decisions.
  • Drive co-validation strategies across hardware and firmware to ensure seamless integration and functionality.
• Innovation & Pathfinding
  • Lead pathfinding efforts to explore emerging technologies and architectures.
  • Provide technical recommendations that shape future silicon and platform designs.
• Methodology & Process Improvement
  • Develop and refine methodologies, models, and tools to enhance firmware development and validation efficiency.
  • Champion best practices in embedded systems design and continuous improvement.
• Technical Leadership & Mentorship
  • Act as a domain expert and thought leader across the organization and industry.
  • Mentor and develop technical talent, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
  • Align organizational goals with technical strategy and drive execution from concept to product delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years as firmware architect/lead for either a data center product or technology

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical mastery in at least 1-2 technical areas of a typical data center products
• Experience with defining (new) interfaces for multiple FW ingredients and microcontrollers

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Job Description:

Firmware is at the heart of what makes embedded systems work. As a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Firmware Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and testing of the low-level C/C++ code that powers the networking devices of tomorrow.

As a Senior Firmware Engineer where you are responsible for all aspects of firmware development for this cutting edge, complex IP. In this role you will work closely with the RDMA architecture team, design, validation, and software teams to provide the full system solution. You will also interact with our customers to understand and satisfy their requirements.

As a member of the firmware team your responsibilities will include:

• System level design and modeling, managing the firmware design environment.
• Interface definition and partition between software, firmware, and hardware.
• Source code development, review, and maintenance- Unit and system level test and verification, triage, bug fixing at the IP-level.
• Technical skills to interface with architecture, design, and system validation stakeholders
• Communication skills to report progress to management forums and document specifications.

The engineer should possess the following behavior attributes:

• Willingness to create and drive concepts to innovative solutions.
• Willingness to provide leadership and mentorship including demonstrated experience organizing and prioritizing the work of themselves and a small team.
• Flexibility and adaptability in a fast paced and dynamic environment.
• Clear and effective technical communication, both verbal and written.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Effective team player with continuous learning mindset.

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.
What we need to see (Minimum Qualifications):

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or related field plus 6 years of industry work experience, or- Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or related field plus 4 years of industry work experience, or- PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or related field plus 2 years of related work experience.

5+ years of embedded firmware development expertise using C / C++.

5+ years of experience in low level programming and operating systems (such as RTOS).

5+ years of experience in debugging firmware and embedded hardware modules.

4+ years of experience in system architecture design and hardware design.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in networking protocols (InfiniBand, TCP/IP, RDMA or RoCE).

Experience in high-speed ASIC or SOC design and debug (Verilog, fsdb).

Experience in post-silicon debug- Experience in SOC emulation.

Experience with Automation using Python.

Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and orschoolwork/classes/research.

Our total rewards package goes above and beyond just a paycheck. Whether you're looking to build your career, improve your health, or protect your wealth, we offer generous benefits to help you achieve your goals. Go to

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This role will require an on-site presence. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

Job Description:

The Firmware Architect will be responsible for:

The ideal candidate will have the following skills in addition to the qualifications listed below.
- Experience in project management with organizational skills and a track record for delivering a set of objectives on schedule and within budget.
- Must be a team player, with a demonstrated experience technically influencing others.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills.

Qualifications:

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.

What we need to see (Minimum Qualifications):

-Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with 9+ years of work experience OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with 6+ years of work experience.

-9+ years of experience in the following:

• Intel Firmware Architecture

• Firmware architecture, design and implementation for digital radio and signal processing on complex SoCs

• Experience leading development and validation execution teams.

Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and orschoolwork/classes/research.

Our total rewards package goes above and beyond just a paycheck. Whether you're looking to build your career, improve your health, or protect your wealth, we offer generous benefits to help you achieve your goals. Go to for details of benefits available to you. Intel reserves the right to modify, change or discontinue benefit plans at any time in its sole discretion.

Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and orschoolwork/classes/research.

Shift 1 (United States of America)Virtual USXeon and Networking Engineering (XNE) focuses on the development and integration of XEON and Networking SOC's and critical IP's sustain Intels Xeon and 5G networking roadmap.
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(Hourly Role)

This role is available as a fully home-based and generally would require you to attend Intel sites only occasionally based on business need. This role may also be available as our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change. The application window for this job posting is expected to end by 05/31/2025

your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Defining the interfaces for next generation Chromebooks, define and implement strategic new initiatives and proof-of-concepts for the Chrome devices.

• Involved in the design and development, integration, debug and maintenance of Coreboot BIOS, Embedded Controller Firmware for x86 platforms.

• Develop platform BIOS, reference code and related documentation for Intel silicon products such as next generation chipsets and processors.

• Author portions of BIOS specifications, creating chipset reference code and develop supporting platform BIOS for Intel's CPUs and chipsets.

• Work closely with Intel silicon design teams and be responsible for software and BIOS related issues during the planning, development, and validation stages of the program.

• Performs pathfinding and surveys technologies which will benefit x86-based Chromebook platforms and collaborates with the larger team to bring it into fruition.

• Interacts with multiple technologists in the company and within the industry as well as between developers and project managers to evaluate feasibility of requirements and determine priorities for development.

• Reading schematics and collaborating with hardware engineers to design, develop sustainable firmware solutions.

• Work closely with hardware development for board bring up, test, certification, and manufacturing support.

• Work with customer support and other partner engineering teams to diagnose and resolve in-house and customer issues.

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to the team members, fostering a culture of inclusiveness, continuous learning, innovation, growth and development.

• Collaborate with the team to implement engineering strategies that align with the overall business goals.

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Qualifications:

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

Minimum skills and experience that will get you noticed:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or Computer Engineering, Electrical engineering or equivalent experience.

• 4+ years of experience Solid experience in C/C++ development and implementing system software in a Linux OS environment.

Preferred skills and experience that will make you stand out

• 4+ years of industry experience in UEFI based System BIOS development or Coreboot BIOS development or other embedded firmware development.

• Expertise in embedded firmware programming for Intel x86/ARM architecture; Coreboot knowledge is a plus.

• Strong background in modern processor microarchitecture and computer systems architecture.

• Experience in embedded architecture, external interfaces, product constraints, along with ability to developarchitectures/featuresthat meet these constraints while providing new value for the platform.

• Source code development, review and maintenance (C/C++). Unit and system level test and verification.

• Experience in low-level programming, system architecture, operating systems, device architecture, hardware design.

• Experience in storage interface standards such as PCIe, NVMe/Optane, SPI, I2C, DRAM, etc.

• System level design and modeling manages design environment.

• System integration using 8, 16, 32 bit microcontrollers. Algorithm modeling, benchmarking, implementation, and digital signal processing.

• Strong technical communication skills with proven experience using them in an Open Source development environment, including mailing lists, IRC, bug-tracking systems, and git commit messages

• Knowledge of git patch manipulation, forensics, andback-porting/forward-porting.

• Writing open source code, submitting patches, reviewing patches, submitting bug reports, writing convincing arguments to get your patches or bugs accepted.

• Experience working with a developer-run Agile/Scrum model.

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Job Description:

The Firmware Architect will be responsible for:

The ideal candidate will have the following skills in addition to the qualifications listed below.
- Experience in project management with organizational skills and a track record for delivering a set of objectives on schedule and within budget.
- Must be a team player, with a demonstrated experience technically influencing others.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills.

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.

-Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with 9+ years of work experience OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field with 9+ years of work experience.

-9+ years of experience in the following:

Firmware architecture, design and implementation for digital radio and signal processing on complex SoCs

Requirements listed would be obtained through a combination of industry relevant job experience, internship experiences and orschoolwork/classes/research.

Our total rewards package goes above and beyond just a paycheck. Whether you're looking to build your career, improve your health, or protect your wealth, we offer generous benefits to help you achieve your goals. Go to

Shift 1 (United States of America)Virtual USXeon and Networking Engineering (XNE) focuses on the development and integration of XEON and Networking SOC's and critical IP's sustain Intels Xeon and 5G networking roadmap.
Position of Trust

Weoffer 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:

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US:

This role is available as a fully home-based and generally would require you to attend Intel sites only occasionally based on business need. This role may also be available as our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site. * Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change. The application window for this job posting is expected to end by 04/25/2025

Job Description:

• Lead, coach and build a collaborative, inclusive and high-performing team where members are set up to be successful and grow.
• Lead the development and validation of the integration of Firmware for IPs and custom design modules into an SOC.
• Lead the development and validation of functional model integration into larger components in various pre-si environments.
• Drive industry leading software practices across various areas including continuous integration, debug infrastructure, bug tracking, and other software engineering infrastructure.
• Manage delivery of firmware products and drive execution alignment with cross-functional teams, partner organizations, and external customers.
• As a member of the leadership team, you will need to collaborate across multiple disciplines and organizations to effectively influence product direction.

• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts effectively.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability and desire to collaborate and influence across disciplines
• Self-directed with a desire to drive issues to conclusion taking ownership regardless of organizational structure and team boundaries.
• Expert knowledge of software and firmware development practices with examples of high-volume product releases
• Experience in System Software

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
• 10+ years of industry experience in firmware and/or silicon model development and/or validation in support of successfully deployed products.
• 3+ years of Engineering Management experience

• Extensive experience in working with cross functional Platform, SoC, and/or IP teams including Architecture, Design, Firmware, and Validation in the development, validation or program management of high-volume production silicon or board-level products.
• Experience working with validation practices in different environments, simulation, emulation and virtual prototype.
• Software development in C, C++, Rust, SystemC, Python and/or Domain Specific Language modeling
• Deep understanding of processors, servers, system software architecture, and associated Power and Performance modelling techniques
• Detailed SoC Architecture, SoC Subsystem Architecture, IP Architecture and/or Microarchitecture knowledge

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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:

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