Broadcom is seeking a Physical Design Engineer to join the Asic Products Division, focusing on top-level floorplanning for advanced Artificial Intelligence and PCIe Switch Products. The role involves driving the physical design process from RTL to silicon tapeout with a strong emphasis on chip integration and methodology development.
What You'll Do
- Own chip floor planning, partition creation, clock tree and delivery of top level partitions
- Resolve physical design issues related to chip integration and assembly
- Manage all cross functional interactions related to top level floorplanning, I/O and bump planning with package team
- Develop and improve floorplan methodologies using both industry and internal tools
- Perform technical evaluations of IPs, providing recommendations and assessments to meet design specification
What We're Looking For
- Must work in person at our San Jose site and no remote work allowed
Nice to Have
- Bachelors and 12+ years of experience in top level floorplanning with a focus on die size estimate, partitioning, clocking and pin assignment
- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and 10+ years of experience in top level floorplanning with a focus on die size estimate, partitioning, clocking and pin assignment
- Experience working on various technologies (Switch Fabric, Arbiter, High Speed DDR, SerDes, HBM, D2D I/O, chiplet etc)
- Experience in resolving chip level DRC/LVS/EMIR issues for advance nodes and tape out experience
- Proven track record with bump planning, RDL routes and multi voltage domain designs
- Experience with hierarchical design planning, power grid design, structured clocks, top level pipeline placement, custom routes and bump planning
- Experience in collaborating with design, package and methodology teams during development phase
- Experience in scripting languages like Python, Tcl, or Perl
Technical Stack
- Python
- Tcl
- Perl
- industry tools
- internal tools
Benefits & Compensation
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- 401(K) participation including company matching
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- company paid holidays
- paid sick leave
- vacation time
- Paid Family Leave
- other leaves of absence
Compensation includes a salary range of $141,300 - $226,000, equity in accordance with equity plan documents and equity award agreements, and a discretionary annual bonus in accordance with relevant plan documents.
Work Mode
- onsite
- San Jose
Broadcom is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability status, medical condition, pregnancy, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We will also consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records consistent with local law.
