Broadcom Optical Systems Division Applications Engineer 

United States, California, San Jose 

519524132

As a senior engineer, you will be a key contributor to Broadcom’s silicon photonics and co-packaged optics product development effort. You will interact with factory and customer design engineers to help define new product requirements, generate design reference collateral, and troubleshoot performance issues that may arise during customer systembring-up/qualification.This is a fast paced, visible position, which has direct impact on product development execution and division revenue.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with customers to define application/product requirements and develop test plans to ensure compliance

• Validate customer designs by leading cross functional electrical, mechanical and thermal design reviews

• Assist customers with initial system bring up and optimization of high-speed optical links

• When necessary, collaborate with other Broadcom divisions to help resolve Customer product performance issues (electrical, optical, software)

• Generate and maintain library of outgoing technical product documentation such as datasheets, reference designs and thermal / mechanical models.

• Conduct interoperability testing with various networking hardware and test configurations.

Requirements:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (or equivalent field of study)

• 8+ years related industry experience

• Expert knowledge of high speed (100G / 400G) Ethernet switch operation and optical link debug procedures

• Working level experience with Linux shell scripting and other scripting languages such as Python

• Experience in high-speed signal integrity design, semiconductor electronics test methods and performance related trouble shooting using digital oscilloscopes, BERTs, VNA network analyzers.

• Strong understanding of networking hardware (switch, HBA, Servers) and board design including Physical Layer Components (CDRs, SerDes, FPGAs) and Industry standards (Ethernet, Fibre Channel)

• Understanding of III-V and Silicon semiconductor device physics

• Demonstrated ability to dynamically prioritize assignments and work independently

Additional Job Description:

The annual base salary range for this position is $119,000 - $190,000.

This position is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents, and equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements.