Job Details:

Job Description: 

Job Summary:

Intel Silicon Photonics Product Division (SPPD) is at the forefront of silicon photonics integration and is at the heart of Intel's transformation from a PC company to a company that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing-devices.

Since announcing the world's first hybrid silicon laser nearly a decade ago, our team continues to lead the industry with cutting-edge technology and efficient, scalable high-volume manufacturing. Our dedication to advanced development ensures that Intel Silicon Photonics continues to drive future data center bandwidth growth with smaller form factors, co-packaging and higher speeds from 400G today to 1.6T+ and beyond tomorrow.

Intel's Silicon Photonics team is currently seeking a Sr. Product Applications Engineer to support its growth in the components business.

Job description:

• Interface directly with a diverse customer base to support design-in with new products and customers, as well as post-sales technical problem resolution.
• Work closely with Product Managers, Business Development, Sales, and Engineering to offer our customers technical enablement to move fast from kick-off to HVM-ready product built around Intel's silicon photonics and mixed-signal electronics chips.
• In some engagements this position may also act as Customer Project Manager, managing the customer engagement and driving the opportunity to Design-Win.

The ideal candidate should exhibit behavioral traits that indicate:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Generation of technical product collateral to enable customers' transceiver design efforts.
• Interface with customer during design-in phase, providing transceiver design input and supporting technical problem resolution.
• Provide first-level technical support to customers in case of issues.
• Engaging Intel SPPD Engineering team as needed to address customers' issues and questions.
• Facilitate as technical point of contact between Intel R/D and customer R/D team.
• Execute experiments to generate data and test results as proof points for customers
• In some engagements manage the overall design-in with a customer, project manage the engagement, acting as primary interface, tracking schedule and activities, and organizing partner groups' support to help our customers develop datacom transceivers, and drive the business opportunity to win and revenue.
• Support the PLM to allocate internal resources and prepare marketing with sales materials and samples.
• Collect customer and market-wide information to inform and develop product roadmap and requirements.
• Identify new potential customers based on understanding of product segment and market.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with our key customers' and partners technical experts and decision makers.

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 requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field.

- 8+ years of technical industry experience in optical networking equipment, optical components design, transceivers, or applications engineering.

The 8+ years of experience must include:

- Customer-facing role as the primary technical interface for optical components business.

- Industry standards and form-factors for datacenter optical transceivers.

- Hands-on experience testing, characterizing, and troubleshooting optical transceivers and components.

- Optical networking technology, optical links, and optical components.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with Silicon Photonics technology and products, technical experience from system OEM or end-customer datacenter operator.

- Master's degree in electrical engineer or related field.

- Able to speak professional Mandarin

Please submit a cover letter detailing your interest in the role and relevant experience when applying.

Note: This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

          

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location: 

US, California, Santa Clara

Additional Locations:

Business group:

The Data Center & Artificial Intelligence Group (DCAI) is at the heart of Intel’s transformation from a PC company to a company that runs the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices. The data center is the underpinning for every data-driven service, from artificial intelligence to 5G to high-performance computing, and DCG delivers the products and technologies—spanning software, processors, storage, I/O, and networking solutions—that fuel cloud, communications, enterprise, and government data centers around the world.

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, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Benefits:

We 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:

https://jobs.intel.com/en/benefits

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

$141,673.00-$241,005.00

Salary range dependent on a number of factors including location and experience.

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for 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.