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: 546664
Job Posting Title: Engineer, Staff I-Software Applications
City: San Jose
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: US – California, Southern – Irvine
Percent of Travel Required: 0% – 25%
Job Function: Engineering
Discipline: ENG-System Software-Software Apps
You have seen it in the news, and now you can be a part of Broadcom Corporation’s success!
Experience Broadcom’s explosive growth, dominating the market in Network Communications. Our presence in the market place holds strong, and is well known in Ethernet Switching products. Our products are leading the way from the SMB market, to the Enterprise market, to the Service Provider market. You will be part of the team that develops and leads the market in the most advanced switching solutions in the industry.Broadcom’s integrated, low power chips empower networking equipment to transmit, manage and prioritize increasing amounts of complex voice, video and data traffic at broadband speeds, moving data to and from the desktop and throughout the business network. Broadcom offers a range of transceivers, media access controllers, switching chips, serializer/deserializer chips, network and security processors, and System I/O chips for Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, SONET and other standard-compliant networking applications.This a unique opportunity to become an expert in the architecture of our Gigabit (even 10G and 40G) Ethernet Switches, PHYs and, most importantly, the software that allows customers to use our devices. You will contribute directly to the success of the products as you assist our Field Applications Engineers in securing customer design wins and provide support to Tier 1 customers, who are designing their products with Broadcom’s award-winning StrataXGS switches and PHYs.
Job Requirements:
Total engineering minimum experience required is typically a BSCS degree, an MSCS degree or a PhDCS, or equivalent. Prior relevant internship/experience preferred.
-Strong Software Development and Debugging skills:
– C, C++, or assembly language experience
– Understanding of software interfaces, data structures and basic algorithms
– Device driver development and performance tuning for Windows, UNIX, or RTOS systems (Linux or FreeBSD strongly preferred)
-Demonstrated fluency in multi-threaded programming, synchronization, interprocess communications, process scheduling and other OS concepts (Linux preferred)
– Architecture and Low Level Hardware/Software experience
– Strong working knowledge of PCI, PCI-X, and PCI Express
– Register level programming of complex devices
– Use of protocol and logic analyzers
-Familiarity with networking protocols and technologies:
– Ethernet; TCP/IP Core Networking protocols (ARP, UDP, DHCP, ICMP, etc.)
-Excellent Communications skills (written and verbal):
– Fluency (conversational and/or technical) in foreign languages is a plus
– Strong presentation skills are desired
-Outstanding problem solving skills and great attitude are required for this position.
-Familiarity with Broadcom devices or SDK is a strong plus.-Familiarity with Broadcom devices or SDK is a strong plus.
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
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