Emulation and Silicon Validation Engineer

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Job Description:

The Network Switch Group at Broadcom has brought some of the most complex and cutting edge networking ASIC's and multi-chip solutions to market over the last decade. The group develops ASIC's for L2/L3 switch routing. These products support the latest networking protocols and features as well as manage extremely large volumes of traffic of the order of several Terabits/sec. These networking ASIC's support a large number of ports ranging from 10/100Mb/s to 800Gb/s speeds as well as various line interfaces and protocols. Some of the Industries most celebrated Switching solutions like Trident and Tomahawk line of products are designed and developed by our teams.

As one of Fortune magazine's "Most Admired Companies", Broadcom promotes an open work environment, embracing change, taking risks and doing the impossible every day. Outstanding initiative and aggressive execution is at the core of who and what we are, and we take pride in outdoing, outsmarting and outselling the competition. With our culture of innovation rewarding brainpower and risk taking with industry-leading company ownership/benefits and competitive salary, this unique environment creates enormous opportunity for you.

Your responsibilities include: ·

Emulation and Silicon Validation of complex System on Chip ASIC design.

• Define, develop and implement test plans and execute on the test plan

• Develop system level tests using tcl, itcl, python, C/C++ languages to verify networking switch chips and systems.

• Create reusable design blocks, libraries and verification components for emulation

• Debug and resolve Pre / Post Silicon failures, Collaborate Cross-functionally with Architecture, uArch and Design teams

• Enable and support Software/Firmware teams with Emulation setup

• Synthesize complex system on chip designs and map into various hardware emulator platforms like Cadence Palladium or Mentor Veloce or Synopsys Zebu.

Additional Job Description :

• Total engineering experience required is typically a BS degree and 8+ years of experience, an MS degree and 6+ years of experience or a PhD and 3 years of experience or equivalent.

• BS (EE/Electrical Engineering or CS/Computer Science) required, MS (EE or CS) preferred or equivalent.

• Hands-on experience with Leadership qualities on driving ASIC / SoC verification flows and methodologies.

• Good Knowledge in languages relevant to the ASIC verification process including Verilog, System Verilog, Tcl, iTcl, Perl, Python, Ruby, C/C++ and Unix Scripting.

• Strong expertise in writing system level tests using C/C++, Tcl, iTcl, Perl and Python.

• Excellent structured programming skills, data structures, algorithms,

• Automation experience is a huge plus.

• Strong Pre/Post Silicon debugging, analytical and independent problem solving ability.

• Good knowledge in using industry standard debugging tools for both HW & SW.

• Must be a team player with good verbal and written communication skills.

• Must be self-driven engineer with good project management and organizational skills to deliver high quality output in a timely manner

Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.

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