Sr. Principal Engineer - Oregon, Hillsboro, United States
$257,740 - $363,860 USD yearly
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Sr. Principal Engineer, Software Application Architecture, you will define and drive the technical direction of software architecture across client, cloud, or enterprise domains.
What you'll do
- Own the technical architecture for the end-to-end telemetry platform, from field and validation data collection through the data lake to insights delivery.
- Scale ingestion and analysis across millions of endpoints and thousands of data points while sustaining high flighting success across platform programs.
- Partner with product architecture, validation, quality, and customer-enabling teams to turn telemetry into business actions and revenue-impacting decisions.
- Set engineering standards, mentor teams, and define the metrics and predictive models that track platform, ingredient, and OEM quality health.
- Lead the development of in-field and app telemetry solutions that is scalable and secure software architectures across client, cloud, or enterprise domains.
What you'll need
- 12+ years of experience building field telemetry and data collection systems at scale, spanning millions of endpoints and thousands of data points.
- Deep knowledge of Intel client platform architecture and OS internals across Windows and Linux, including crash and reliability paths such as BSOD, live kernel dumps, machine checks, and event logs.
- Software architecture skills for scalability, security, and resiliency in high-volume ingestion, storage, and analysis pipelines.
- Hands-on development experience with modern data lake and analytics stacks (Snowflake, Databricks, cloud services), plus the ability to define coding standards, tooling, and validation processes.
- Applied analytics or machine learning experience for failure classification, bucketing, de-duplication, anomaly detection, and predictive quality trending.
- Experience delivering telemetry-based validation infrastructure supporting platform onboarding, flighting, and data collection.
Skills: telemetry platform, data lake, crash analytics, reliability modeling, software architecture
This role has been open 16 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
974
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$236k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (974 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 43 | 974 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 201 | 6156 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 10 d | 51 d (−41 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: telemetry platform, data lake, crash analytics, reliability modeling, software architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 281 open roles · median 46 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 55 d
- AMD · 55 open roles · median 22 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 91 d
- Intel Corporation (this employer) · 41 open roles · median 10 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 81 d
How we counted: 974 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 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.