PAM4 DSP AE
Broadcom - Sacramento, CA
posted 6 months ago
About the position
As a Principal Product Applications Engineer for High Speed Interconnect Products at Broadcom, you will play a crucial role in supporting Tier 1 customers who are designing their products with Broadcom's high-speed physical layer devices (phys). This position requires you to leverage your extensive background in hardware/software, systems, and technical applications engineering to become an expert in the architecture of our 100+ Gigabit phys. Your expertise will be essential in maintaining Broadcom's market-leading position in the industry. You will interface directly with customers and collaborate with our Field Applications Engineers to support pre-sales activities and ensure the successful launch of finished products. Your primary responsibility will be to help secure customer design wins and assist customers in rapidly bringing their products to market. This involves providing support for architecture and low-level hardware questions, as well as addressing any issues that may arise. You will engage in both pre-sales and post-sales support through various channels, including email, phone, and customer visits. Additionally, you will be responsible for documentation, product definition, and roadmap development, as well as analyzing customer architecture and requirements. Debugging complex issues and problems will be a significant part of your role, along with board debugging and bring-up activities. You will also conduct schematic and layout design reviews and provide training to customers and Field Applications Engineers. Your ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, will be vital as you work closely with customers and various internal teams, including Hardware and Software Engineering, Architecture, Field Applications Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and senior management. While most of your work will be performed at Broadcom offices, some tasks will require travel to customer premises, making flexibility essential.
Responsibilities
- Support architecture and low-level hardware questions and issues
- Provide pre-sales and post-sales support via email, phone, and customer visits
- Create and maintain documentation
- Define product specifications and roadmap
- Analyze customer architecture and requirements
- Debug complicated issues and problems
- Conduct board debugging and bring-up activities
- Review schematics and layout designs
- Train customers and Field Applications Engineers
Requirements
- BS in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Science with a minimum of 12+ years of relevant experience, or MS with a minimum of 10+ years
- Experience in Applications Engineering with direct customer interaction
- Strong project or time management skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks concurrently
- Capability to explain and train others on complex technology
- Experience in debugging complicated problems or bugs
- Knowledge of hardware/software/firmware bring-up
- Experience in training customers and/or Field Applications Engineers
- Strong working knowledge of high-speed (10Gbps+) phy and SerDes
- Preferred experience with Ethernet systems and standards
- Preferred experience with 50G+ optical systems and standards
- Experience with architecture, programming, or support of complex System on a Chip devices
- Practical knowledge of C, C++, and Visual Basic for modifying/creating simple functions/scripts
- Experience with high-speed Signal Integrity issues
- Experience with optical components and testers
- Ability to review PCB layout and schematic
- Familiarity with Ethernet traffic generators, high-speed scopes, jitter analyzers, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, and OTN testers
Nice-to-haves
- Fluency in foreign languages (conversational and/or technical)
- Strong presentation skills
- Excellent teamwork skills
Benefits
- 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
- Paid Family Leave and other leaves of absence
