Company Overview
Broadcom Inc. is a global technology leader designing and supplying semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions for data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets. Learn more at *************
Job Summary
Join the Central Engineering Group as a design engineer to develop foundation IP for AI products, focusing on memory compilers, logic cells, and custom macros using advanced process technology.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to Memory Design Validation for custom memory macros and memory compilers to ensure design accuracy and performance
- Perform functional verification to identify and resolve design discrepancies through root cause analysis
- Conduct signal integrity analysis to detect design weaknesses and propose effective solutions
- Execute transistor level simulations to identify and resolve Power Up or Lock up issues
- Perform EM/IR analysis and simulations to assess impact on timing and internal margins
- Validate timing and internal margins through transistor level simulations, identify characterization gaps, and implement fixes
- Conduct QA and validation checks to ensure accuracy of timing and power models
- Develop automation scripts to streamline verification flow and data analysis processes
- Support silicon debug activities and correlate findings with spice models
- Collaborate with memory designers to co-develop and enhance memory characterization and validation workflows
- Coordinate with memory design leads, modelling leads, and managers to define and implement the memory validation plan
Preferred competencies and qualifications
- Understanding of transistor level circuit behavior and device physics to support detailed analysis
- Knowledge of signal integrity, EM/IR, and reliability analysis to improve design robustness
- Proficiency in running simulators and writing automation scripts to enhance verification efficiency
- Familiarity with memory behavioral and physical models to aid validation efforts
- Expertise in memory circuit design to contribute to advanced design tasks
- Understanding of DFT schemes and chip-level integration to support design for testability
- Strong communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills to collaborate effectively within teams
- Self-motivated with the ability to multitask and manage competing priorities
- Passion for solving complex problems and eagerness to learn new technologies
Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Electronics or Computer Engineering with a minimum of 5 years of experience in memory circuit design and validation.