Job Description

We are looking for a Hands-On Firmware Team Lead to lead a Firmware Power Management team within the Client PM Firmware Group and drive end-to-end PM feature development for Intel Client SoCs.
The role combines deep technical ownership with team leadership, leveraging AI-driven flows and agents to accelerate architecture, development, debug, analysis and validation coverage closure.
In this role, you will act as a player-coach, spending roughly 60 percent of your time on hands-on architecture and codebase development, and 40 percent guiding, mentoring, and managing a small team of specialized firmware engineers. You will collaborate closely with SoC architecture, hardware and validation teams to deliver highly efficient and stable power management firmware that delivers the most efficient power and performance flows.

*Work Model: 4 days Onsite

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership: Architect and develop robust embedded C++ firmware for power regulation, dynamic voltage scaling (DVFS), voltage/current management, and ultra-low-power sleep states.
• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and conduct code reviews for a high-performing team of firmware engineers; manage project timelines, resource allocation, and team effectiveness.
• Hardware Co-Design: Partner with Silicon Architecture and RTL design teams to define HW/FW interfaces and flows.
• System Optimization: Drive power profiling, latency optimization, and firmware stability across bare-metal.
• Testing Validation: enhance unit testing and system simulation frameworks to support developed set of features.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
• Firmware Expertise: Minimum 8 years of professional embedded firmware development experience using C and C++.
• Leadership Experience: 2+ years leading engineering projects, mentoring junior developers, or directly managing engineering personal.
• In-depth knowledge of embedded system mitigations, including RTOS.
• Hands-on experience writing bare metal firmware code for ARM or Xtensa CPUs.
• Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of power management and state transitions, low-level firmware development and working with HW teams- Advantage

Job Type:

Experienced Hire

Shift:

Shift 1 (Israel)

Primary Location:

Israel, Haifa

Additional Locations:

Business group:

Intel makes possible the most amazing experiences of the future. You may know us for our processors. But we do so much more. Intel invents at the boundaries of technology to make amazing experiences possible for business and society, and for every person on Earth. Harnessing the capability of the cloud, the ubiquity of the Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, we create value for our stockholders, customers, and society.

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

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.

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