R&D Software Engineer
Job Description
The R&D Software Engineer 4 at Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Division (MSD) is responsible for applying past experience to inform the product roadmap, experimenting with new technologies, and performing complex code modification, testing, and debugging tasks. This role involves providing high-level analysis related to software design and development, mentoring junior developers, participating in design and code reviews, and actively supporting and contributing to end-of-iteration demos.
What You Will Be Doing in a Typical Week
- Apply past experience to inform the product roadmap
- Experiment with new technologies that improve our software
- Adopt a test-first approach to software development
- Participate in design and code reviews with other engineers
- Participate in test plan reviews
- Mentor Junior team members
- Perform unit/module testing of software
- Actively support and contribute to end of iteration demos
- Responsible for assigned integration, testing, and deployment tasks
- Actively foster continuous team improvement in self and team
- Contribute to team retrospectives
- Help to identify and resolve team impediments
- Take ownership of problems and continuously strive to become a better problem solver
- Write and maintain documentation to describe program development, logic, coding, testing, changes, and corrections
Qualifications
- At least 8+ years of experience testing modern large-scale software and complex test configurations
- Mastered the basics of operating as a developer in the IBM mainframe environment
- Experience debugging with tools like XDC, IPCS
- Experience in software development using IBM Assembler/Metal C on the mainframe (zOS or zVSE) platform
- Experience in implementing JCL to execute batch processes in zOS or zVSE
- Additional experience in one or more of the following programming languages: IBM C, ISPF CLIST, REXX, RESTful APIs and Object-Oriented programming
Work Location
Lisle, IL
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or higher or global equivalent in a software-related field.
Work Experience
8+ years of experience in software development or a related field.
Legal Authorization To Work In The U.S. Is Required
Additional Job Description
Compensation And Benefits
- The annual base salary range for this position is $108,00 - $172,800
- This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.
- 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
The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.