R&D Engineer

Position:
R&D Engineer IC Design

Company:
Broadcom

Compensation:
The annual base salary range for this position is USD 143,800.00 to USD 230,000.00.

Location:
USA-CA San Jose Innovation Drive / USA-CA Irvine Alton Parkway Bldg 2

Employment type:
Full time

Work Arrangement:
Not specified

Short Summary:
This opening is for working on chips that enable Physical Layer Products for High Speed Optical Communication.

Responsibilities:
- Architect block level design specifications from marketing/system requirements.
- Prepare detailed design documents, timing constraint files, RTL coding, Lint checks, CDC, Synthesis, Equivalency checking, STA, RTL/gate level simulations & silicon debug.
- Scripting for various IC design tasks such as STA, equivalency checks, test bench, simulations, synthesis, etc.
- Prepare block level resource requirements & development schedule.
- Generate verification & test plans for design validation.
- Perform design tradeoff analysis – leakage, dynamic power, die size, schedule, resource, priority, etc.
- Silicon bring up and validation, ATE program bring up.

Requirement:
- B.S degree in EE or Computer Engineering.
- Minimum of 12 years of work experience with direct related technical skill.
- M.S degree/Ph.D in EE or Computer Engineering with 10 years of work experience.
- Good knowledge of ARM subsystem, high speed digital circuit design, digital upsampling/downsampling, 10G/100G/200G/400G/800G Ethernet and OTN network, FEC design, digital signal processing, and error correction code.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, hands-on lab debugging experiences.
- Good knowledge of RTL simulation and synthesis.
- In-depth knowledge for design for low power, design for test, and design for manufacturing.
- Proficient in Verilog, VHDL, Unix/Perl Scripting or Python, and C.
- Self-motivated with excellent communication skills, able to work in a team environment.
- Good organization skills, able to follow through & bring issues to closure.
- Understand the entire IC development flow & procedure including silicon volume production qualification requirements & procedures.
- Enthusiastic & enjoy IC development work.
- Able to work with teams at remote locations with different time zones.

Benefits:
Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package:
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- 401(K) participation including company matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Company paid holidays, paid sick leave, and vacation time
- Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.