CPU-SoC Silicon Design Engineering Intern null

About Intel Malaysia

In Malaysia, Intel Corporation's legal name is Intel Malaysia Sdn. Berhad, manufactures and sells computer and computer peripheral equipment. The Company offers processors, chipsets, keyboards, mouse, boards, monitors, storage, and wireless products. Intel Malaysia serves customers worldwide.

Your role

As a CPU-SoC Silicon Design Engineering Intern at Intel Malaysia, you will be involved in the training, design, and development of next-generation SOC/CPU for a wide range of Intel products and the Internet of Things.

Your responsibilities will include one or some of the following but are not limited to:

• Assist design unit owner in Register Transfer Level RTL model functional validation. Use CAD tool extensively to simulate logic behavior and circuit performance and direction of physical design for next-generation, deep sub-micron embedded circuit solutions. Verify the circuit behavior against the original simulation model and first silicon.
• Define VLSI Structural Design methodology and develop design flows. Implement structural physical designs, such as synthesis, floor planning, power-grid, and clock tree designs, timing budgeting and closure, place and route, RC extraction, and integration. Verify structural physical designs, such as functional equivalency, timing/performance, noise, layout design rules, reliability, and power.
• Develop Analog IP on the next-generation deep submicron process for Intel's SOC, perform tasks related to Very-large-scale integration VLSI complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor CMOS IC design, Solid state physics, and physical layout. Such tasks may include:
  • The circuit design of high speed clocking related circuits [phase-locked loop PLL, delay-locked loop DLL, bandgap] or high voltage input/output IO [double data rate DDR/LPDDR, General-purpose input/output GPIO, OPIO].
• Responsible for Integration of Third-party IPs -- Synthesis, functional and/or timing convergence, and pre and post-si debug of IPs developed by various external vendors as well as within the company. Handling of signals crossing power planes and clock domains, industry-standard protocols including hardware and software details dealing with Memory LPDDR, storage eMMC, SATA, UFS, peripherals PCIe, USB, and MIPI interfaces in SOC devices. System integration dealing with Si/ Platform/ FW/ MW/ drivers/ OS/ Apps on Android and Windows-based tablets and phones.
• Responsible to validate and integrate third-party IPs ensuring they meet product specifications and functionality before they are productized into physical chips. Required to work very closely with design teams and architects to implement the low-level RTL design to ensure the overall good functionality of the chip. Develop a specific test environment/platform, validation methodology, and test plan to validate SOC design by identifying and exercising boundary conditions and special cases in an effort to break the chip to find that last elusive bug.
• Oversees definition, design, verification, and documentation for SoC System on a Chip development.
• Determines architecture design, logic design, and system simulation. Defines module interfaces/formats for simulation.
• Performs Logic design for integration of cell libraries, functional units, and sub-systems into SoC full chip designs, Register Transfer Level coding, and simulation for SoCs.
• Contributes to the development of multidimensional designs involving the layout of complex integrated circuits.
• Performs all aspects of the SoC design flow from high-level design to synthesis, place and route, timing, and power to create a design database that is ready for manufacturing.
• Analyzes equipment to establish operation infrastructure, conducts experimental tests, and evaluates results.
• May also review vendor capability to support development.

Training & development 

Based on its official statement, Intel provides extensive employee training and development opportunities through Intel Learning and Development (ILD), an internal training organization. In addition to job-development courses, ILD also offers a broad range of programs for enhancing personal and career growth. In fact, ILD is so popular that it offers over 7,000 courses to choose from, with the average Intel employee taking six courses per year.(source:intel.com)

Career progression

Although there is no explicit mention of career progression for this position, you can be assured that continuous development and career growth are a priority at Intel. A technical career at Intel might begin while you're still a student, as an intern. From there, you could graduate to the position of Junior Engineer and grow step-by-step to become a Senior Engineer, Technical Leader, Principal Engineer, and Senior Principal Engineer. (source:community.intel.com)

Work-life balance

The regular office hour starts from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Saturday and for the shift, working hours will be 12 hours (7 am to 7 pm). However, Intel applies flexible working hours as well, so you can work within flexible hours as long as the work is well delivered. Specifically, for this role, you will be eligible for Intel hybrid work model which allows you to split your time between working on-site at your assigned Intel site and off-site.

Company culture

Intel is highly rated as one of the best companies to work for. The main reasons for that achievement mainly that Intel has a good working environment, friendly colleagues, and the people here have a good culture of working together. Good management, work-life balance, and a good place to work for

About you

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position:

• Students pursuing a Bachelor's degree in EECS or a related major with a good CGPA
• Good communication skills and proficiency in English
• Knowledge of Unix, VLSI Design, SOC/PC Architecture, and System Verilog is a major plus

How to apply

To apply for this job, click the "Apply on employer site" button on this page. We will direct you to Intel Malaysia's official link for this vacancy. 

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.