Cross-Intel / Cross-Government Research Scientist

Job Details:

Job Description: 

This job posting is to recruit exceptional talent into one of the most unique jobs that exists in the microelectronics industry as a technical leader. These roles will develop and execute a complex strategy across RND pillars of technical scope between the entire breadth of Intel Corporation as well as Government agencies of the USA and strategic allies. This role will support the small RND leadership team by doing focused research investigations and material preparation and presentations. Successful applicants will sit on the "tip of the spear" in state-of-the-art RND across the entire ecosystem.
Background on Intel Federal and Intel Government Technologies:
Intel Federal LLC (IFL) d.b.a Intel Government Technologies (IGT) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation responsible for managing Intel's business and regulatory compliance with Governments worldwide. Intel Government Technologies (IGT) is the expanded activity that represents a profit-and-loss center at the Intel Corporate level that uniquely ensures compliance and regulatory aspects for IFL, including the generation of market specific products, focused RND activities, and deep engagements with sponsoring Government partners. IGT develops and executes programs of mutual benefit to Government Sponsors, market Customers, and Intel's long-term strategic objectives.
In IGT, we collaborate across all of Intel: Sales and Marketing, Government Affairs, Intel Product Business Units (client, datacenter, networking, edge, FPGAs), Intel Foundry (silicon, packaging, materials), as well as the RND, Communications, Legal, and Strategy teams at the corporate level.
Intel Government Technologies has multiple groups, this job posting specifically focuses on the advanced RND portion.
The RND team has only one goal - to be the premiere microelectronics RND partner for all US and Allied Governments driving customer mission successes aligned to Intel objectives.
Specific Job Description:
This position is recruiting for a critical support role to the RND Strategic Pillar Leads. These Pillar Leads will be chartered with connecting Intel's technology know-how and leadership with the unique needs of the Government. This specific role will facilitate their results by engaging in focused RND on specific topics, gathering information from internal and external sources, and assimilating diverse material to help set strategic directions and activities. This will require engagement across Intel's entire RND operations, but will also spillover and engage with Products, Foundry, and Strategy.
If you are a successful applicant, then on a continuous basis this job expects you to have multiple roles:

• Work across Intel Corporation's activities, understand some of the strategic imperatives for external RND engagement based on product roadmaps, current RND activities, and gaps in technology to realize superior solutions
• Work across targeted Government agency activities, understand some of the strategic imperatives for their future platform requirements based on their anticipated future challenges, profiles, and concerns
• Help develop, establish, and drive consistent approaches and methodologies to engage, evaluate, and define the value of Government opportunities based on technical, financial, and strategic factors
• Help deploy strategies/processes to increase effectiveness and efficiency across IGT, Intel, and our Government partner agencies
• Help Help monitor active programs at Intel in RND for their success

In addition to the focus on driving adoption and growth of Intel's technology pipeline to meet Government needs, you will be directly supporting technical asks from the IGT RND team. This will span a broad range of activities requiring strong communication skills (written and oral) as well as patience with a very diverse set of audience requirements. This part of your job may include:

• Supporting the engineering and technical workforce in the identification, valuation, and execution of relevant aligned work.
• Partnering closely across relevant technology teams within Intel to maintain a technological view of current, near-term, and future technology needs and opportunities.
• Learning about new technologies and giving an introduction/overview to other technologists and/or business leaders
• Developing technical briefings and/or executive review material
• Facilitating in the creation of proposals and/or whitepapers, executive summaries, and slides
• Engaging directly with Government agencies or customers to follow-up on specific items or areas of focus for deeper insights and analysis

Engage and support other technical leaders within IGT, the related Sales organization, as well as Global Government Affairs to preposition and help ensure an aligned approach between technology and funding sources. Responsibilities include:

• Supporting Government Affairs lobbying efforts
• Supporting Sales' collateral development and 'option engineering'

Recognized and measurable technical excellence including state-of-the-art and historical RND in at least one technical pillar spanning all of hardware and software related to:

• AI and HPC
• Edge and Sensing
• Security
• Foundry (silicon, materials, packaging, etc.)
• Novel computing (quantum, MEMS, analog, etc.)

This is a highly cross-functional role which requires extensive technical breadth, creativity, and curiosity as well as the ability to understand and appreciate business environments and constraints. A strong desire to work in and collaboratively maintain a strongly positive workforce environment is culture is essential to success. Candidates must have experience driving cross-organizational projects and strategies, excellent written and oral communications skills, and a good understanding of Intel's technology or of the Government's technology needs, with a keen and rapid interest in learning the other.

This job has travel expectations. You will be expected to travel domestically and internationally to Government Sponsor locations as well as to visit Customers and Partners. It is not uncommon for this travel to be required on very short notice.

Preferred Locations: US, Virginia, Fairfax, US Arizona, Phoenix, US California, Folsom or Santa Clara, US Massachusetts, Beaver Brook, US, Oregon, Hillsboro and US Texas, Austin

Qualifications:

We are seeking very strong technical candidates with clear systems level thinking. The candidate must have a recognized degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related field that developed that knowledge (and can be tested) which meets one of the following requirements for experience:

• Bachelor's degree and 11+ years of relevant experience
• Master's Degree and 8+ years of relevant experience
• PhD and 6+ years of relevant experience
• US Citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a US Government Security Clearance.
• 2+ years experience constantly interfacing with external customers in commercial or government sectors at many levels of technical communication and engagement
• 2+ years experience with simulation and emulation and analytical methodologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Active US Government Security Clearance, with a minimum of Secret level.
• Strongly preferred hiring toward already cleared individuals (Secret or higher)

• 2+ years of close engagement with Government agencies (USG, FVEY, NATO, strategic allies)
• Willing and able to travel across the USA and at times internationally, sometimes at very short notice
• Experience with various Government agency contracting methods (CPFF, FFP, T and M, IDIQ, CRADA, OTA, etc.) as well as terms, challenges, and negotiations
• Experience and knowledge related to EAR, ITAR, and other regulatory requirements
• Experience with the operations of capture, proposal, submit, and other stages of RND development with external agencies

2+ years of senior Technical or Managerial leadership role owning the architecture definition and development of RND platforms for complex solutions at any scale.

• Oversight and/or direct management of programs related to timelines, costs, engineering assignments, workforce requirements, and/or regular reporting of results that were in the USD25-250M program budget range spanning 2-6 years
• Risk and mitigation assessments and profiling
• Evaluation between Background (BIP) IPand, Foreground IP (FIP) generation, management, and valuation, and value assessment

POSITION OF TRUST: This role is a Position of Trust. Should you accept this position, you must consent to and pass an extended Background Investigation, which includes (subject to country law), extended education, SEC sanctions, and additional criminal and civil checks. For internal hires only, this investigation may or may not be completed prior to starting the position.

Job Type:Experienced Hire

Shift:Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location: Virtual US

Additional Locations:

Business group:Enable amazing computing experiences with Intel Software continues to shape the way people think about computing – across CPU, GPU, and FPGA architectures. Get your hands on new technology and collaborate with some of the smartest people in the business. Our developers and software engineers work in all software layers, across multiple operating systems and platforms to enable cutting-edge solutions. Ready to solve some of the most complex software challenges? Explore an impactful and innovative career in Software.

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 TrustThis role is a Position of Trust. Should you accept this position, you must consent to and pass an extended Background Investigation, which includes (subject to country law), extended education, SEC sanctions, and additional criminal and civil checks. For internals, this investigation may or may not be completed prior to starting the position. For additional questions, please contact your Recruiter.

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:

$214,730.00-$303,140.00

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

Work Model for this 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 08/04/2025