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: 770
Job Posting Title: Principal- Validation Engineer
City: San Jose
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: N/A
Percent of Travel Required: 0% – 25%
Job Function: Engineering
Discipline: ENG-Hardware-IC Design
The Network Switch Group at Broadcom has brought some of the most complex and cutting edge networking ASIC’s and multi-chip solutions to market over the last decade. The group develops ASIC’s for L2/L3 switch routing. These products support the latest networking protocols and features as well as manage extremely large volumes of traffic of the order of several Terabits/sec. These networking ASIC’s support a large number of ports ranging from 10/100Mb/s, 1Gb/s, 10Gb/s, 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s speeds as well as various line interfaces and protocols.
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.
Your responsibilities include:
• Verify complex System on Chip ASIC design.
• Develop and implement test plans execute on plans.
• Synthesize complex system on chip designs and map into various hardware emulator platforms
• Develop system level tests using tcl, itcl, perl, C/C++ and system verilog programming languages to verify networking switch chips and systems.
• Create reusable design blocks, libraries and verification components for emulation.
• Improve and define new verification / emulation methodologies.
• Debug and resolve Pre / Post Silicon failures.
• Create and maintain emulation environment for worldwide user community.
Job Requirements:
- Total engineering minimum experience required is typically a BS degree and 12 years of experience, an MS degree and 9 years of experience or a PhD and 6 years of experience or equivalent.
- BS (EE/Electrical Engineering or CS/Computer Science) required, MS (EE or CS) preferred or equivalent.• Hands-on experience with ASIC / SoC verification flows and methodologies.
- Must have hands-on experience with network protocol validation, RFC, IEEE,
- Good Knowledge in languages relevant to the ASIC verification process including Verilog, System Verilog, Tcl, iTcl, Perl, Python, Ruby, C/C++ and Unix Scripting.
- Strong expertise in writing system level tests using C/C++, Tcl, iTcl, Perl and Python.
- Excellent structured programming skills, data structures, algorithms, SCM for large complex SW projects. Automation experience is a plus.
- Strong Pre/Post Silicon debugging, analytical and independent problem solving ability.
- Good knowledge in using industry standard debugging tools for both HW & SW.
- Must be a team player with good verbal and written communication skills.
- Must be self-driven engineer with good project management and organizational skills to deliver high quality output in a timely manner.
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
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