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Broadcom

Designs chips and software for data centers

IC Verification Engineer

Hardware Validation & TestingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSan Jose, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Electronics or equivalent with 12+ years of experience, or a Master's degree in Electrical/Electronics or equivalent with 10+ years of experience.
  • At least 10 years of experience developing complex verification environments, test plans, functional coverage, and pseudo-random testing.
  • Experience completing a full ASIC cycle from architecture development to tapeout, with a focus on verification.
  • Proficiency in SystemVerilog and verification methodologies such as UVM or VMM.
  • Debugging skills for analyzing regression failures and understanding complex designs.
  • A good understanding of a complex protocol such as PCI Express or another multi-layered protocol.
  • Ability to work with the team and mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop scalable, reusable testbench environments using verification methodology frameworks.
  • Drive test plans for all Block, Core, and SoC features, and write functional coverage for those features.
  • Build pseudo-random tests to verify features, achieve full functional coverage, and bring verification to closure.
  • Debug regression failures, analyze functional coverage gaps, and improve tests to cover those gaps.
  • Work with other team members and guide or mentor junior team members.
  • Use creative approaches to stress the design under test and verify it efficiently.
  • Lead documentation of verification strategy, including test plans, verification environments, and pseudo-random tests, and lead reviews with design and architecture teams.
  • Drive improvements in verification quality and efficiency.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with the PCIe protocol.
  • Scripting knowledge in Python or Perl.
  • Comfort with Makefiles.
  • Experience verifying designs with other protocols such as AXI.

About the Company

Broadcom

Designs chips and software for data centers

Broadcom designs chips and sells infrastructure software for the companies that run large data centers, telecom networks and corporate IT. Its custom AI processors, built with cloud companies, and its Ethernet switch chips move and process data inside the computer clusters that train AI models. The chip business also makes parts for broadband, wireless, storage and industrial equipment, sold to device makers and cloud operators, while VMware software lets businesses run private clouds and is sold by subscription. Broadcom took its current form in 2016, when Avago Technologies, formed in 2005 from Agilent's chip unit, bought Broadcom Corporation, and it is based in Palo Alto, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Palo Alto, CA
Founded
2005

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