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: 554641
Job Posting Title: Engineer, Sr Principal- IC Design
City: San Jose
State: California
Country: USA
Alternate Location: US – California, Northern – Bay Area; US – California, Southern – Irvine
Percent of Travel Required: 0% – 25%
Job Function: Engineering
Discipline: ENG-Hardware-IC Design
This is a digital design position in the High Speed Interconnects (physical layer) group.
In this role you will work in a highly motivated team on PHY chips operating at 10Gb/s, 40Gb/s, 100Gb/s and other new, even-higher performace networking products which often integrate a variety of higher-end functionalities such as encryption, precision timing protocols, error correction, fault-tolerance, advanced signal processing, and other value-added features, for data center and internet backbone markets.
Primary responsibilties include all aspects of the frontend digital design flow, and may involve:
Translating system requirements into engineering specifications
Defining / doumentating / presenting appropriate micro-architecture
Implementing RTL blocks and integrating them into the overall project
Designing block level tests and assisting in chip level verification
Performing synthesis and static timing analysis / closure
This position may also entail some amount of involvement in
Gate level debug / ECO
Lab bring-up
On-chip firmware design
Customer support
Requirements:
Typically requires a BS degree and 15 years of experience or an MS degree and 12 years of experience or a PhD and 9 years of experience developing, implementing, and testing high performance communications/networking ASIC products. Candidates with other qualifications will be considered for hire at commensurate levels.
The following technical skills are required:
Verilog RTL design with a strong understanding of DFT / BIST / SCAN concepts
CDC analysis & linting (SpyGlass)
Logic synthesis (Synopsys)
Timing analysis (Primetime) tools
Power analysis & logic equivalence tools
Scripting (PERL, TCL, VBS etc) Languages
Experiences /familiarities that can help an individual thrive in this role include:
Impelementing networking protocols (ethernet, sonet, fiber channel,1588, macsec, etc), especially in layers 2 & 3.
SERDES-based designs & DSP-hardware designs
Mapping standards-based specifications to compliant implementations
Individuals with the following qualities are invited to apply:
Energetic personality, with a strong “can-do” attitude
Able to clearly communicate complex technical ideas
Ready to take on responsibilities on both an individual and group level
Broadcom is an equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans)
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