Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®.
Job Req ID: 541
Job Posting Title: Engineer, Sr Staff-Software Development
City: San Jose
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: N/A
Percent of Travel Required: 0% – 25%
Job Function: Engineering
Discipline: ENG-Software-Software Development
The industry’s most respected fabless communications semiconductor, software and systems innovator, Broadcom, is looking for the world’s best and brightest engineers.
As one of Fortune magazine’s “Most Admired Companies”, Broadcom promotes an open work environment, embracing change, taking risks and doing the impossible every day. Outstanding initiative and aggressive execution is at the core of who and what we are, and we take pride in outdoing, outsmarting and outselling the competition. With the fifth most valuable patent portfolio in the world and through the hard work and dedication of our people, Broadcom achieves a leadership position in every market we enter. With our culture of innovation rewarding brainpower and risk taking with industry-leading company ownership/benefits and competitive salary, this unique environment creates enormous opportunity for you.
Come leverage Broadcom’s world-class talent and technology and make the impact in network switching semiconductors that you have always wanted to accomplish, with a team that you can count on. Join a world-class software team and become the best you can be by developing system software for Ethernet packet processing and switching systems.
In this role, you will be challenged with responsibility for working closely with architecture teams in design and development of next generation BRCM DSP firmware for 1588 (PTP) protocol and other DSP and bare metal firmware for Ethernet PHY and switching silicon on real time ARM processors. Responsibilities include architecture, design, development and unit testing on FPGA systems, post silicon bring up, validation and debug. This is your opportunity to work closely with Hardware, Architecture and Design teams to define requirements and architecture for Ethernet PHYs/Switches/Reference boards and to implement the necessary software support for these in Broadcom SDK.
Typically requires a BS degree and 9 years of experience or an MS degree and 6 years of experience or a PhD and 3 years of experience; CS/EE preferred
• Experience in Precision Time Protocol (PTP) (IEEE-1588) is a strong plus.
• Requires DSP firmware development experience
• Software Development experience (Drivers & API)
• Very strong programming skills in C
• Experience with BareMetal, Firmware, RTOS environments ( RTOS, FreeRTOS, embedded Linux etc)
• Experience in ARM architectures (Cortex-M, Cortex-R series)
• Experience with device drivers and/or diagnostics and understanding of hardware devices
• System primitives such as timers, DMA, interrupts, cache configuration and device registration
• Familiarity Ethernet MAC and PHY, physical layer devices/transceivers
• Experience with layer 2, layer 3 networking protocols, e.g. Ethernet, IP forwarding, MPLS, MAC-in-MAC, WLAN switching, Tunneling, Ethernet OAM.
• Excellent work ethic, dependable, and responsible
• Must be a flexible self-starter who can ramp up with new technologies quickly
• Imaginative, motivated, and able to work effectively under pressure
• Strong logical and creative problem-solving skills, good oral and written communication skills, and excellent analytical skill
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
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