Hardware Platform Applications Engineer - Military & Aerospace
$122,440 - $232,190 USD yearly
Originally posted 19 June 2026 by the employer. Relisted by the employer on 27 October 2026.
About the role
As a Hardware Platform Applications Engineer on the Intel Government Technologies Customer Engineering team, you will support customer-developed systems across the military and aerospace market.
What you'll do
- Directly engage customers to provide support for customer-developed systems, including on-site power-on support.
- Participate in the definition and development of Proof-of-Concept systems and technical demonstrations.
- Replicate and debug customer-reported platform issues using laboratory measurement equipment.
- Work directly with platform and chipset software architects to develop and finalize platform hardware requirements.
- Participate in customer platform schematic and layout reviews, as well as field quality return issue analyses.
- Operate Linux-based machines and tools to build and flash software components to facilitate debug activities.
What you'll need
- US Citizenship and the ability to obtain a US Government Security Clearance.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
- 3+ years of end-to-end platform hardware (board) design experience covering circuit design, schematic capture, platform design guideline creation, and bring-up/power-on debug.
Nice to have
- Active US Government Security Clearance, with a minimum of Secret level.
- Post Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study.
- Experience leading a hardware or software power-on effort on-site with a customer, including debug of power-on boot flows and debug of CPU interfaces.
- Lab debug experience utilizing debuggers, protocol analyzers, high-speed oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers.
- Experience performing signal integrity and/or power integrity simulations on customer designs.
- Experience with Intel power delivery architecture and general SoC bring-up challenges.
- Experience working with Government sponsor agencies and members of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB).
Skills: customer support, on-site power on, Proof-of-Concept, platform hardware, schematic and layout reviews, lab debug
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This role has been open 138 days — well above the 95-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Automotive IC
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Open roles in category
143
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Median days open
95 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$152k
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| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (143 roles · 23 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 143 |
| Median days open | 138 d | 95 d (+43 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $152k |
Skills observed across this category: customer support, on-site power on, Proof-of-Concept, platform hardware, schematic and layout reviews, lab debug
Who's hiring in this category
- Infineon Technologies · 34 open roles · median 78 d
- Texas Instruments · 23 open roles · median 141 d
- NXP Semiconductors · 22 open roles · median 91 d
- Qualcomm · 10 open roles · median 35 d
- Renesas Electronics · 10 open roles · median 103 d
- Microchip Technology · 8 open roles · median 229 d
How we counted: 143 open Applications FAE (Automotive IC) roles from 23 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.