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Broadcom

Designs chips and software for data centers

Kubernetes Platform Infrastructure Architect

Full-TimeDeadline 1/11/27
$110.8k - $177.3k/yr+ Annual Bonus + Equity Grants
Expert
Bachelor's
Washington, USA+5 moreMore locations: Texas, USA | Jackson Township, NJ, USA | Virginia, USA | New York, NY, USA | North Carolina, USA
Remote
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Deep technical acumen: Proven architecture expertise on VMware Cloud Foundation core infrastructure products, including advanced vSphere deployment, vSAN storage architectures, and automated SDDC Manager operations. Experience with Kubernetes Platform Engineering (EKS, AKS, RH OpenShift/OPP, Rancher)
  • Excellent Infrastructure Knowledge: Comprehensive knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure, including server, network, and storage architectures.
  • Advanced Networking Fabrics: Deep design and implementation experience with enterprise networking fabrics e.g. VMware NSX or other leading Solutions.
  • Cloud-Native Networking: Demonstrated solutions experience managing Kubernetes-native networking constructs, ensuring reliable ingress controllers, egress controls, and CNI multi-tenancy configurations.
  • Advanced Troubleshooting: Lead analysis of issues during PoCs or pilot across the entire technology stack, tackling complex infrastructure, networking, and containerization issues within Kubernetes and Supervisor environments.
  • Professional Experience: 12+ years in technology-related engineering or consulting roles, with explicit depth in enterprise IT architecture, data center SDN, or private cloud infrastructure platforms. Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is highly beneficial.
  • Customer-Facing Delivery: Proven success working directly alongside enterprise customers and global Systems Integrators to deliver technical solutions and drive platform adoption.
  • Communication & Storytelling: Excellent presentation, storytelling, and interpersonal skills with the ability to comfortably articulate infrastructure complexities in clear business terms to executive decision-makers.
  • Dynamic Collaboration: Enthusiastic, self-starting professional with the agility to work hand-in-hand with multi-disciplinary sales and engineering teams to advance strategic client opportunities.
  • Travel Flexibility: Ability to travel up to 60% of the time to support on-site architectural workshops and client deployments.
  • Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field; or equivalent practical data center experience.
  • Core Knowledge: Deep, verifiable knowledge of VMware enterprise products, software-defined data center virtualization paradigms, and modern container networking architectures.
  • Certifications: Highly desirable professional credentials include VMware Certified Professional / Advanced Professional tracks (VCP-VCF Architect, VCAP-NV), Cisco certifications (CCIE/CCNP Data Center), or relevant public cloud network architecture paths (CKA and / or CKAD, Red Hat OpenShift Certified Architect RHCA/RHCE)
Responsibilities
  • Trusted Architectural Advisor: Act as a trusted advisor for enterprise customers, guiding them through the strategic design, validation, and full-scale deployment of VMware Kubernetes solution built on VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure platforms.
  • Technical Leadership & Adoption: Drive customer success by spearheading architecture workshops, technical deep-dives, and complex Proof-of-Concepts (PoCs) to accelerate the deployment of Supervisor and VMware Kubernetes Service.
  • Kubernetes Networking Solutions: Deliver resilient solution architectures for Kubernetes networking, managing advanced configurations for IP Address Management (IPAM), container-native egress/ingress traffic, and cloud-native microservices routing.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering field core teams and Systems Integrator partners to jointly develop customer proposals that address virtualization scaling, workload placement, and physical-to-virtual operational transformations.
  • Asset & Pattern Creation: Build, standardize, and share reusable reference architectures, deployment patterns, and technical assets to accelerate customer adoption of VCF enterprise infrastructure.
Desired Qualifications
  • Certifications: Highly desirable professional credentials include VMware Certified Professional / Advanced Professional tracks (VCP-VCF Architect, VCAP-NV), Cisco certifications (CCIE/CCNP Data Center), or relevant public cloud network architecture paths (CKA and / or CKAD, Red Hat OpenShift Certified Architect RHCA/RHCE)

About the company

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, California

Founded

2005

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What believers are saying

  • AI demand is surging: AI chip sales more than tripled to $16.7 billion in the quarter ended August 2026.
  • Big orders are booked ahead: Anthropic agreed in April 2026 to take 3.5 gigawatts of Broadcom-built TPU capacity from 2027.
  • Jobs sit on deep profits: Broadcom converts almost half its revenue into free cash, 46% in the August 2026 quarter.

What critics are saying

  • Jobs hinge on one channel: a single distributor bought 32% of Broadcom's fiscal 2025 revenue, up from 28%.
  • Regulators face pressure to act: in July 2026 European cloud firms urged EU antitrust chiefs to pause VMware partner cuts.
  • Software customers resent the pricing: Broadcom swapped VMware's permanent licenses for subscriptions, angering many corporate buyers.

What makes Broadcom unique

  • Broadcom builds chips that customers design: it turns Google's TPU AI processor designs into finished silicon.
  • Broadcom also runs a big software arm: infrastructure software, led by VMware, made 30% of quarterly revenue in August 2026.
  • Broadcom grows by buying: it acquired CA Technologies in 2018, Symantec's enterprise unit in 2019 and VMware in 2023.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

10%

1 year growth

11%

2 year growth

10%
Yahoo Finance
Oct 19th, 2026
Broadcom stock is down 31.5% from its June peak: is $328.75 cheap enough?

Broadcom shares closed at $328.75 on October 16, 2026, 31.5% below their highest close of the past year, set on June 2. Shareholders lost 5.7% over twelve months, while the S&P 500 returned 16.2%. The stock now trades at 43.7 times trailing earnings, down from 82.1 a year earlier. That is still higher than at 19 of the 35 earlier quarter ends since late 2017. Diluted earnings per share doubled from $3.92 to $7.83, and operating margin rose to 48.5% from 39.0%. AI semiconductor revenue hit $16.7 billion in fiscal Q3 2026, or 56% of the total. Management guided fiscal Q4 revenue to $34.8 billion, up 93%, while analysts expect about $35.6 billion. Broadcom is expected to report on or around December 9, 2026.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 17th, 2026
Broadcom's $29B lease backstop: how far does $13.7B quarterly cash flow cover it?

Broadcom has backed a customer's five-year compute lease obligations, with maximum potential liability of about $29 billion after full deployment, according to its quarterly filing for the period ended August 2. No payments had been made, and the recorded fair value was immaterial. In a default, the liability would reflect 85% of outstanding covered amounts less equipment proceeds. Exposure rises as racks are deployed and falls as lease payments arrive. The filing also describes conditional financing through customer convertible notes of up to $42 billion, none of which had been issued. Broadcom generated $13.665 billion of free cash flow in the quarter, and held $23.975 billion in cash. The maximum backstop equals about 2.12 quarters of that free cash flow. AI semiconductor revenue reached $16.7 billion.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 16th, 2026
Broadcom CEO says capital, not chips, may be AI's biggest constraint as chip stocks slide

Broadcom chief executive officer Hock Tan says access to capital, not chips, memory or electricity, could become the biggest constraint on AI expansion. Speaking at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore on Monday, he said supply bottlenecks have repeatedly emerged and eased over the past two years. Demand still outstrips supply, Tan said, and the gap could last through 2029 and possibly into 2030. He warned that many investors "have no clue what they are investing in." He noted that OpenAI's annualised revenue nears $50 billion, but said that does not prove lasting profit given high training costs. Intel chief executive officer Lip-Bu Tan also pointed to the cost of capital and the need to show returns. Global chip stocks fell, and Broadcom shares traded lower in premarket trading on Thursday.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 15th, 2026
Broadcom's AI revenue jumps 221% to $16.7B as investor shrugs off slow software drag

Broadcom's AI semiconductor revenue rose 221% to $16.7 billion in fiscal Q3, and management guided Q4 to $21.7 billion, up 236%. It expects to exceed $30 in earnings per share in fiscal 2028. Slower segments are seen as a drag, but software carries a 94% gross margin. Non-AI chip revenue grew 5% to $4.2 billion. Free cash flow reached $13.665 billion, and the company raised its dividend for the 15th straight year to $0.65 a quarter. Shares fell 8.04% in a week to $346.25, leaving them up 0.59% this year. Risks include six custom chip customers, $59.6 billion of fixed-rate debt, and gross margin heading to 73% from 78%. The next earnings report is due December 9, 2026.

Yahoo Finance
Oct 15th, 2026
Baird's Mortonson: Wall Street tiring of chipmakers financing AI as semiconductor gains slip to 65%

Wall Street is growing weary of chipmakers that finance their customers, according to Baird tech strategist Ted Mortonson. He said investors are tiring of "the Bank of Nvidia, the Bank of AMD and the Bank of Broadcom," and that the AI stock sell-off is increasingly about who needs financing and at what cost. Mortonson pointed to a higher cost of capital and scrutiny of circular finance. CoreWeave fell more than 15% on Wednesday; he said it, Nebius, and Oracle rank "probably at the bottom" of tech on free cash flow. Even chipmakers with strong results are being sold. The PHLX Semiconductor Index, up about 87% for the year as of October 6, closed Wednesday up 65%. Mortonson said institutions are likely shifting to software.