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Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com

About the Business Group

The Digital Enterprise Group (DEG) delivers innovative computing and communications platforms for companies large and small around the world. Platforms include product ingredients such as industry-leading processors, technologies, chipsets, networking components and software as well as motherboards. Working with a large community including hardware and software developers as well as government entities, DEG delivers innovative technology platforms and helps drive industry standards efforts that enable businesses to reduce costs and support growth opportunities. Whether the enterprise is publicly traded, privately owned, government or education, when Intel® platforms and products are built in, success is built in.

About the role

Intel Shannon has a number of exciting and challenging opportunities for electronic/software engineers interested in using their design, development and support experience to work with European customers on Embedded Intel Architecture. Intel has a long and successful history of enabling development and deployment of embedded applications by driving the adoption of open standards and providing a comprehensive product line. Intel offers a broad range of embedded solutions to meet our customer's needs for performance, functionality and cost across the following target segments; In Car Infotainment Systems, Communications, Consumer Electronics, Digital Security Surveillance, Enterprise Infrastructure Security, Industrial, Interactive Client, Gaming, Print Imaging, Medical, Storage and Wireless Infrastructure. In this position, you will be acting as a technical expert, consultant, analyst, key technology trainer and program manager. You will be responsible for supporting Intel® platforms (processors, associated chipsets and software) for the embedded market, owning and managing projects from initial customer opportunity discovery through to end product qualification and working closely with other Intel divisions in driving new technology adoption. Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Responsible for direct engagement with Tier 1 OEMs providing pre and post sales technical support, including architecture definition, platform design and debug support
- Resolving difficult technical problems, investigation and disposition of errata (hardware and software)
- Working directly with platform and silicon architects to ensure a complete platform solution is defined and available for the OEM and/or ODM customers to use during their development cycle
- Acting as a liaison between customers' requirement, and architecture teams to ensure `best-in-class' product definitions
- Working with ecosystem partners on third party silicon products that are integral to the overall Intel platform. This includes working with third party vendors to align platform requirements, develop supporting collateral's and support customer inquiries on platform implementation requirements
- Owning and driving the definition and development of platform technical documentation for OEM and/or ODM customer. This will also require direct engagement with product marketing engineers to develop customer-ready collateral and messages

Qualifications/Experience

You must possess a degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science with more than two years experience in design or support of Embedded Systems. Additional qualifications include:
- Broad range of skills that include board design, board bring-up, software development and debug of embedded systems
- Broad technical ability across hardware and software in embedded systems and will possess excellent communications skills
- Strong understanding of the X86 architecture, ideally Intel Architecture-based platforms including the CPU and Chipset architecture and associated system requirements
- An understanding of circuit design and architectural concepts to develop and execute debug analysis in the lab
- Demonstrated ability to listen, understand and respond professionally to customers including strong teand presentation skills
- Ability to work independently, be proactive, multitask effectively and exhibit good influencing skills with strong customer orientation
- Experience in working with and supporting sales and marketing teams to deliver pre-design in support
- Experience of software tools associated with electronic design such as Cadence*, Orcad and Protel
- Specialist experience in some of these areas and interested in broadening out their skills would be an added advantage