Software Enabling and Optimization Engineer - Bangalore, India
Originally posted 21 September 2026 by the employer — open 0 days.
About the role
This role involves developing, optimizing, and integrating software solutions for Intel products by collaborating with customers, software vendors, and the open-source community.
What you'll do
- Drive customer enabling activities for Intel client platforms across Audio, Computer Vision, and Camera software ingredients.
- Execute Platform POR features and ensure successful platform bring-up, validation, and customer adoption.
- Debug and resolve complex platform issues spanning hardware, firmware, BIOS, operating systems, drivers, middleware, and applications.
- Partner with Microsoft and other OS vendors to investigate and resolve operating system, driver, and platform integration issues.
- Collaborate with third-party ecosystem partners including Codec Vendors, Camera Vendors, ISVs, IHVs, ODMs, and OEM customers to drive feature integration and issue resolution.
- Develop technical collaterals, enabling guides, debug methodologies, knowledge repositories, and issue triage frameworks.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electronic, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Four or more years of hands-on experience in software development, testing, and optimization, with expertise in debugging (WinDBG, Visual Studio, trace analysis tools, and platform logs) and performance tuning.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, Python.
- Experience working with hardware-software integration and optimization techniques.
- Experience in one or more technology domains including: Audio, Camera / Imaging, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence.
- Strong knowledge of Audio subsystem architecture, Audio Controllers, DSPs, Audio Codecs, and Audio driver stacks.
- Solid understanding of System-on-Chip (SoC) and platform architecture.
- Good understanding of device driver architecture and driver frameworks, preferably Windows Driver Frameworks (KMDF/UMDF).
Nice to have
- Master's degree in a relevant field with three or more years of professional experience.
- Ability to gather, define, document, and communicate technical requirements across engineering, architecture, marketing, and ecosystem teams.
Skills: software development, platform bring-up, device driver architecture, hardware-software integration, operating systems
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 56-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
664
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Median days open
56 d
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Median salary
$205k
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| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (664 roles · 72 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 19 | 664 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 156 | 5829 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 19 d | 56 d (−37 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $205k |
Skills observed across this category: software development, platform bring-up, device driver architecture, hardware-software integration, operating systems
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 156 open roles · median 62 d
- NVIDIA · 129 open roles · median 45 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 53 d
- Broadcom · 25 open roles · median 55 d
- Mobileye · 24 open roles · median 61 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 88 d
How we counted: 664 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 72 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 21 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.