R&D IC Systems Engineer

Broadcom•Irvine, CA

About The Position

You will be a technical expert in end-to-end fixed point communication systems and DSP System Design Engineering for fiber optical physical layer transceiver products. Join a team of highly competent system and ASIC designers involved in architecture design, verification, and implementation of advanced signal processing algorithms for the physical layer of high speed data communication networks. The types of algorithms that will be implemented include: PAM/QAM single/multi-carrier transceivers, single/multi-input adaptive equalizers/cancelers, single/multi-dimensioned FEC, digital filters, and interface/integration with analog functions.

Requirements

Bachelor's + 8 years of related experience, or Master's + 6 years of experience, or PhD + 3 years of experience
Knowledge in Communication Theory and Digital Signal Processing algorithms
Knowledge of analog circuit behavior, transmission line theory, and s-parameters
Experience in MATLAB/Simulink, C/C++/Java, Python, Unix, Linux
Good hands-on skills in the lab
Good oral and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

Experience architecting communications systems for high performance ASIC based products is highly desirable
RTL coding expertise is a plus

Responsibilities

Develop specification, architecture, and micro-architecture of signal processing and communications algorithms
Define and document chip requirements, architecture, verification and lab test plan
Bit-exact MATLAB/Simulink and C/C++/Java system modeling and simulation
Develop and run system level simulations of the transceiver and perform vector matching verification with RTL simulations
Lab testing and debug of ASICs
Documentation/application note development and customer support