Broadcom Board Hardware Engineer 

United States, Georgia 

808405298

Key Responsibilities:

The board design engineer functions as the project engineer that:

• Interprets product requirement information into electronic schematic information
• Works with component engineering in selecting and approving new components
• Writes functional specifications and unit test plans
• Can learn quickly company online document control system
• Manipulates Bill of Materials
• Works with physical design to determine location of components and routing constraints
• Can do pre and post simulation of the board design
• Works on multiple assignments keeping marketing and management informed of progress and roadblocks
• Is fluent in the English language, able to interact verbally with peers, management, marketing and customers in person or on the phone
• Is able to utilize and coordinate some project assignments with contracted design and test services
• Supports new and past designs through engineering change orders and problem debug

Required Skills:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 5+ years of related experience with PCB design and development
• Experience performing high speed PCB designs
• Experience designing and laying out DC/DC regulator circuits
• Experience performing board bring-up, using oscilloscopes, digital multi-meters and soldering tools
• Working knowledge of Cadence-Allegro System Capture and PCB Editor software tools
• Experience with simulation tools such as:
  • Cadence Sigrity PowerDC and OptimizePI
  • LTSPICE/PSPICE
• Familiarity with common bus protocols such as DDR4, PCIe, UART, I2C, SPI and USB
• Office tools: MS-Office(Excel, Word, Visio), Google (Sheets, Docs)

Desired Skills:

• Experience using Python, C, TCL, VHDL, Verilog, Github
• PSOC programming
• High current DC/DC design and layout
• Test Equipment: TDR and VNA
• Experience using and following checklists
• Experience performing board layout, PCB Stack up design, is a plus

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $78,000 - $130,000

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.