Moblin Technical Marketing Engineer

About the Job
Job Title: Moblin Tech Marketing Engineer (TME)
Start Date: 15th December 2008
Location: London

About Intel:

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually advance how people work and live. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com

Business Group Overview

The Intel Software and Solutions Group (SSG) connects Intel to the worldwide software community. SSG strives to bring competitive advantage to Intel® platforms by helping independent software vendors, operating system developers, OEMs, channel members and systems integrators deliver exceptional customer value and achieve differentiation on Intel® processor technologies. SSG provides global leadership to the software community through its technical expertise, industry enabling activities, and developer products and programs.

Job Description

In this position, you will be joining the energetic Technical Marketing Engineer (TME) team in Intel's Open Source Technology Center to deliver software based on the Moblin.org open source project to major OEM/ODM customers. Moblin.org is an Intel sponsored project whose goal is to deliver a complete Linux-based open source software stack for platforms based on the Intel® Atom processor family in various market segments including Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks and/or nettops, automotive in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), Consumer Electronics (CE) and health care devices. This is an opportunity to apply both technical knowledge and marketing savvy in a team oriented environment. You will be working with key industry partners to drive the development and delivery of cutting-edge new products into these growing markets. This team operates in a fluid environment that will enable you to engage in a diverse set of responsibilities.

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Acting as the primary technical interface between the Moblin software engineering team and customers who are building the Moblin software stack into their devices
- Working with other TMEs in various business units to provide pre-sales technical support to ODM and/or OEM customers to ensure customer Time to Market (TTM) production ramp
- Seamlessly transitioning post-sales support to the Customer Support team in OTC Engineering
- Working with customers on software architecture definition and during the entire development and/or debug cycles
- Replicating and debugging customer reported issues by identifying code level issues and proposing changes to customer software or to Moblin software
- Acting as a liaison between customers' requirements and the Moblin software team to ensure `best-in-class' product definitions
- Owning and driving the definition and development of the Moblin software documentation for ODM and/or OEM customers to reference during their development cycle
- Working with product marketing engineers to develop customer-ready collateral and messages
- Representing Moblin at industry and open source community events

Qualifications

You should possess a strong engineering background balanced with experience in technical marketing. A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent) with five or more years of directly related experience is preferred. Additional qualifications include:

- Strong problem solving skills and ability to apply critical thinking
- Proven customer management and communication skills
- Strong understanding of Intel architecture-based platforms or ARM-based platforms including the Operating System stack
- Deeper knowledge of Linux* and other open source software used in devices
- Demonstrated technical writing and presentation skills
- Ability to work independently and proactively, multitask effectively and exhibit strong influencing and leadership skills with a strong customer orientation
- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and overseas

The following qualifications would be added advantages:
- Experience working with Tier 1 OEMs (and field representatives) and experience creating 'customer ready' collateral and training
- Experience debugging Linux drivers, middleware or applications
- Experience developing or porting the Linux kernel, drivers, middleware or applications

How to Apply

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