System Debug Software Engineer
Intel is hiring a System Debug Software Engineer in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Intel.
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- Level rates this software engineer role Uses AI ●●○○: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Claude, Copilot and Linux Kernel.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 879 other open roles at Intel.
- The role was posted in the last few days.
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System Debug Software Engineer to handle end-to-end issue resolution, firmware debugging, and leverage AI-enabled workflows and automation.
Job Description:
- Own end-to-end issue management across silicon and software programs, from issue sighting through root cause, fix validation, and closure.
- Perform technical debugging, failure isolation, reproduction, and root cause analysis across firmware, BIOS, kernel, drivers, OS, power, platform, and ecosystem component.
- Drive issue resolution across cross-functional teams including validation, development, firmware, architecture, COEs, product groups, and external stakeholders until closure.
- Assess issue exposure, tracking critical blockers, supporting release readiness decisions, and ensuring product quality criteria are met.
- Support customer and field escalations by investigating customer-reported failures, partnering with customer-facing teams, determining impact, and driving corrective actions.
- Hands on debug involving ticket triage, failure history review, lab bring-up, physical inspection, hypothesis validation, and escalation when required.
- Maintain accurate technical documentation including debug evidence, reproduction steps, root cause findings, corrective actions, disposition, traceability, and closure records.
- Manage issue prioritization, program-level exposure tracking, status reporting, metrics, dashboard accuracy, and overall ticket database health.
- Improve engineering efficiency through debug automation, AI-enabled workflows, creation of new skills and agents, tooling enhancements, and process optimization.
- Provide knowledge sharing and best practices across the organization and teams.
- Provide recommendation and fixes to validation test coverage on improvements in log enablement, test content and automation scripts and efficiency improvements which will reduce the initial triage time
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), Electrical Engineering (EE), or a related engineering field with 5 to 7 Yrs of experience.
- Deep knowledge of operating system architecture, specifically Linux kernel internals (memory management, process scheduling, interrupt handling, and virtual memory) .
- Proficiency with kernel debugger.
- Hands-on experience debugging kernel panics, system hangs, and memory leaks
- Strong understanding of the x86 boot flow.
- Solid background writing, debugging, and patching device drivers (e.g., PCIe, USB/Type-C, Ethernet/NIC drivers, memory controllers)
- Experience with physical hardware protocols: PCIe Gen5/Gen6, I2C, SMBus, eSPI, and SPI
- Cross-Layer Triage: Driving root-cause analysis (RCA) to determine whether a platform failure is caused by a hardware design defect, a BIOS configuration issue, or a driver bug.
- Good understanding of AI to create skills and agents using Claude or copilot and implement for use case needs
Job Type:
Experienced HireShift:
Shift 1 (India)Primary Location:
India, BangaloreAdditional Locations:
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
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System Debug Software Engineer at Intel rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where device drivers was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where linux was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where firmware was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where troubleshooting was part of your work. What did you do?
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