IP Integration Engineer

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Job Description:

IP Integration Engineer

Broadcom’s ASIC Product Division (APD) is focused on enabling customers to develop products with a sustainable and substantial competitive advantage.  APD does this by delivering best in class technology platforms, easy to integrate bleeding edge intellectual property, and by providing world class customer support.  APD’s customers span a wide range of industries developing ASICs for largest and most complex cloud computing AI engines, supercomputers, networking, to low power and most advanced wireless solutions, as some examples.

The IP Integration Engineer will be part of a cross functional design team developing die-to-die and die-to-memory PHY IP.  The PHYs are used broadly in APD's custom silicon ASIC products.   The successful candidate will be involved in the development of the physical composition (hardening of the PHY) as well as developing methodologies for integrating these into large complex 2.5D and 3.5D ASICs.  This individual must be highly motivated and capable of working both independently and as part of a team. This position is located in Fort Collins, CO.

Job Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or equivalent, and 5+ years of related experience; or Masters degree and 3+ years of related experience

• Understanding of design trade offs for power, area, and speed in ASIC designs.

• Have an understanding of the ASIC design flow including FET design, RTL, synthesis, timing, floorplanning, power planning, P&R, LVS, DRC, ...

• Basic understanding of modern FET architecture including FinFET and Gate All-Around (GAA) topologies.

• Experience with Cadence Innovus or equivalent toolset

• Experience in reading timing reports from static timing tools such as Tempus or Primetime.

• Strong verbal, written communication

• Team player that can easily work with different personalities and skill levels

• Ability to multitask and manage multiple technical issues in parallel

• Well organized, methodical, and detail oriented

• Must develop, accurately track, and meet commitments to product or engineering development schedules

Desired:

• Experience with the Cadence Virtuoso design environment

• Experience or coursework with RTL languages (i.e SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL)

• Experience scripting in Skill, TCL, Ruby, Bash, Perl, Python, etc..

• Familiar with timing reports and strategies for fixing violations

• Experience or familiarity with Ansys Redhawk

• Working knowledge with AI tools such as Chat GPT, Gemini, and/or Cursor

Typical Duties Include:

• Develop a detailed understanding of Broadcom's die-to-die PHYs.

• Work with multiple cross functional teams--analog design, digital design, physical composition, DFT, timing, and customers--to build PHYs

• Work with physical composition teams and interposer design teams

• Work with analog and physical composition teams to optimize the size and power delivery to high IO density PHYs

• Work with teams to analyze power integrity (droop, EM, etc…) in various use cases and workloads

• Develop/write PHY integration documentation for ASIC composition teams

• Develop list of Checklist task for integration of PHY IP into ASICS

• Work with IP build teams to complete quality crosschecks to ensure the quality of the PHYs

• Help support customer and ASIC PHY integration questions

Additional Job Description:

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $91,000 - $146,000. 

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.

Broadcom offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package: 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 and vacation time. The company follows all applicable laws for Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence.

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.

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