Foundation IP Design Engineer

Job Title

Foundation IP Design Engineer

Role Summary

Join the Central Engineering Group as a memory design engineer focused on the development of memory compilers and custom macros across advanced process technologies. The role covers transistor- and gate-level design, layout integration, characterization, and silicon correlation of memory blocks.

Work with a small technical team to design, simulate, verify, and debug memory and circuit blocks from specification through silicon.

Experience Level

Entry-level / Early career — requires 2+ years of related experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include design, verification, characterization and silicon correlation for memory macros and related circuit blocks.

• Analyze memory architectures and evaluate trade-offs.
• Design memory and circuit blocks at gate and transistor level.
• Perform transistor-level simulation and analysis using industry simulators.
• Extract layouts and run post-layout simulation and verification.
• Floorplan physical implementation and integrate leafcell layouts to build physical macros.
• Integrate and automate characterization flows to extract timing and power data.
• Specify and verify behavioral and physical memory models.
• Document design specifications, behavioral descriptions, and timing diagrams.
• Specify silicon test plans and correlate silicon results to simulation; assist in silicon debug.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, plus a few preferred items.

• Experience with development of memory compilers or custom digital memory circuits (SRAM, register files, multi-port memories, ROM).
• Strong understanding of transistor-level circuit behavior and device physics.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, EM/IR, and reliability analysis.
• Familiarity with memory behavioral and physical modeling and DFT schemes for chip-level integration.
• Proficient with transistor-level simulators and scripting to automate simulations, characterization, and verification flows.
• Good communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills; able to work independently and multitask.
• Nice-to-have: familiarity with test setups, silicon testing, and silicon debug techniques.

Education Requirements

Requires a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering. The posting specifies 2+ years of related experience.

About the Company

Company: Broadcom

Headquarters: Irvine, California, United States

Broadcom is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. The company is known for its innovations in wireless and broadband communications, enabling a connected world.