Principal IC Design Engineer

About the role

The ASIC Product Division in Broadcom is a leading supplier of state-of-the-art SOCs to the world. Our products connect everything. We are seeking a motivated and technically strong engineer to join our SOC team to design and integrate IP on high volume and high performance SOCs. This is an exciting opportunity to develop new ideas, design the next generation of leading-edge products, and work on the most advanced technologies in the industry.

Responsibilities

• Participate in defining the overall SOC architecture
• Ensure quality design through detailed design analysis using leading edge tools
• Lead the extended team to support simulation, synthesis, formal verification, constraint definition, and validation of design
• Collaborate with Internal and External teams to enable customer success
• Refine solution by consulting with layout engineers to optimize area and performance
• Define DRAM system timing budget goals aligned to product requirements
• Generate collateral to support an IP release including design specifications

Qualifications

• Bachelors in Engineering (EE, CE, or CS preferred) and 12+ years of related experience; OR Masters degree in Engineering and 10+ years of related experience
• Must have legal authorization to work in the US. This position does not have funding to support company-sponsored immigration support

Skills

• Strong understanding and experience with high performance DRAM interface design
• Experience with SOC architecture and how the memory interface fits into system
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills + usage of cloud based documentation
• Ability to analyze complex trade-offs and make data-driven decisions
• Demonstrated expertise in HDL languages Verilog/VHDL and SystemVerilog
• Strong understanding of physical implementation and timing closure with process variation
• Understand Signal Integrity and related design impacts

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $127,100 - $203,400.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus
• Competitive new hire equity grant and annual equity awards
• 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 as applicable by law