R&D IC Design Engineer

Broadcom is seeking a skilled engineer to work on chips that enable Physical Layer Products for High-Speed Optical Communication. The role involves designing, coding, and validating complex digital circuits, with a focus on high-speed communication technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Architect block level design specifications based on marketing and system requirements.
• Prepare detailed design documents and timing constraint files.
• Conduct RTL coding, Lint checks, CDC, synthesis, equivalency checking, STA, and simulations.
• Script various IC design tasks including STA, equivalency checks, and test bench simulations.
• Prepare block level resource requirements and development schedules.
• Generate verification and test plans for design validation.
• Perform design tradeoff analysis regarding leakage, dynamic power, die size, and resource allocation.
• Conduct silicon bring-up and validation, including ATE program bring-up.

Qualifications:

• B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or an M.S./Ph.D. with 3 years of experience.

Skills:

• Strong knowledge of ARM subsystems and high-speed digital circuit design.
• Familiarity with digital upsampling/downsampling and Ethernet/OTN networks (10G to 800G).
• Understanding of Forward Error Correction (FEC) design and digital signal processing.
• Proficient in RTL simulation and synthesis, with a focus on low power design and test manufacturing.
• Experience with Verilog, VHDL, Unix/Perl scripting, Python, and C.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with hands-on lab debugging experience.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, with the ability to work in a team environment and manage remote collaborations.