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: 547488
Job Posting Title: Sr Staff- Firmware Engineer
City: Sunnyvale
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: N/A
Percent of Travel Required: 0% – 25%
Job Function: Engineering
Discipline: ENG-Software-Firmware
Broadcom is developing next generation Wireless (Wi-Fi) products for mobility consumer electronics, PCs, Access Points and broadband routers. Broadcom’s AirForce family of 802.11a/b/g/n WLAN solutions are enabled across many product platforms. Wi-Fi based products are very rapidly growing, driven by Broadcom’s innovation and technology leadership. We’re looking for energetic, enthusiastic and driven engineers excited about 802.11 wireless networking, network protocols and embedded system requirements.
We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic Senior Staff level software engineers excited about 802.11 wireless networking, network protocols and working closely with hardware. Do you like seeing your work on the shelves of your favorite electronics store – then become part of the team that enables Wifi on almost all of the tier #1 mobile vendors out there.
1. You will develop drivers and help bring the latest generation of wifi solutions to the market.
2. You will be involved in low level hardware bring-up and debugging of the firmware and network drivers for Linux/MacOS, Pcie
3. You will develop the latest Wifi features and 802.11 protocols. – Strong C programming skills necessary.
REQUIREMENTS:
-Total engineering minimum experience required is typically a BS degree and 9 years of experience, an MS degree and 6 years of experience or a PhD and 3 years of experience or equivalent.
– BS (EE/Electrical Engineering or CS/Computer Science or CE/Comp
– Solid experience in wireless protocols, systems analysis, 802.11 and underlying PHY and MAC, Linux internals such as device drivers, networking interfaces, QoS and the TCP/IP stack. Working for embedded domain.
– Must have mastered the RTOS fundamentals, interrelationships between DMA engines, interrupts, Interrupt Handling, Global Interrupt Handling, Memory Virtualization, user/kernel space, race conditions and perimeter locking.
– Experience in software system architecture.
– knowledge in ARM architecture, ARM assembly.
– knowledge of hardware interfaces like SDIO/USB
– A strong knowledge of kernel configuration and build, packaging, install and initial system bring up including boot loading is also necessary.
– Must have good communications skills and quick learning capability, willing to be involved in development efforts with our direct customers, helping in their design, development and debugging phases.
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
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