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: 460
Job Posting Title: Principal level Foundry Engineer
City: Santa Clara
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: N/A
Percent of Travel Required: 0% – 25%
Job Function: Engineering
Discipline: Technical Director-Technical Director
• Manage the interface between design groups and the various foundries. This includes reviewing with designers the performance requirements and application-specific operating conditions, disseminating process development information to internal groups, driving foundry device design to meet future product requirements, and extracting the necessary technical and device performance data for design.
• Work with foundry and internal CAD to enable design with technology files and process design kits.
• Work with Manufacturing, Central Engineering, and Design to validate design IP.
• Collect design sensitivity data and bring the products to alternative foundries for manufacturing.
• Handle product tape out, verification of design rule violations, mask data, and process flows.
• Resolve prototype lot issues; determined whether problems are design or process related.
• Starting engineering corner lots and evaluate of parametric data vs. sort data.
• Work with the design teams to ensure product tape outs meet requirements for process window, manufacturing variation, electrical screening, and reliability.
• Hold pre-design kickoff and pre-tape out meetings to cover product quality assurance.
• Typically requires a BS degree in engineering and 12-15+ years of related experience or an MS degree and 9-12+ years of related experience or a PhD and 6-9+ years of related experience or equivalent
• Expertise in process development and device physics
• Effective communicator
• Good business sense to prioritize various projects in accomplishing key company goals
• Familiarity with circuit design concepts and building blocks for communication products
• Knowledge of analog design constraints and its interaction with key process parameters
• Strong in data analysis, design rule implementation, DOE and matrix/split lot design
• Experience in New Product Introduction, Characterization, Qualification, and Yield Improvement
• Prior experience in troubleshooting IC product issues
• 5% travel, domestic and international
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
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