Broadcom

Applications Engineer

Broadcom
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24 hours ago
San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$168k - $268k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Support high-speed Ethernet switching designs, packet-forwarding pipelines, and embedded software.
  • Help users deploy Broadcom switch and NIC solutions for HPC and AI/ML data centers.
  • Run benchmarks and tune congestion control, load balancing, and QoS performance.
  • Work with users on SAI and SDK integration and validation.
  • Support L2/L3, VLAN, VxLAN, SRv6, ACL/FP, IP tunneling, multicast, and RoCE features.
  • Guide users on AI fabric design, RDMA, congestion tuning, topology, and collective-traffic behavior.
  • Deliver accurate and timely technical support and collateral while coordinating customer and engineering communications.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Electronics Engineering with 15+ years of networking-domain experience, or a master's degree with 13+ years of networking-domain experience.
  • Experience with RDMA, RoCEv2, Ethernet, high-performance networking, network architecture, and network topologies.
  • Working knowledge of L2/L3 switching, VLAN, VxLAN, SRv6, ACL/FP, IP tunneling, and multicast.
  • Knowledge of PFC, ECN, and DCQCN congestion techniques.
  • Experience debugging embedded software, with Linux kernel and kernel networking knowledge as an advantage.
  • Hands-on SAI API development, porting, or ASIC SDK integration experience.
  • Knowledge of the SAI object model and its mapping to hardware pipeline resources.
  • Experience integrating SAI with NOS stacks such as SONiC or other systems on Broadcom XGS/DNX platforms, including Tomahawk, Trident, or Jericho.
  • Experience debugging or extending SAI implementations and resolving SAI-to-SDK translation issues.
  • Exposure to multi-vendor NOS ecosystems, HPC and AI/ML data center operations, high-radix GPU or accelerator fabric topologies, and telemetry-driven network operations is preferred.
  • Strong problem-solving, self-direction, attention to detail, and written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

  • Annual discretionary bonus and new-hire and annual equity awards, subject to applicable plans and agreements.
  • Medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) participation with company matching and Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Employee Assistance Program, company-paid holidays, paid sick leave, vacation time, and applicable paid family and other leave.

Tech Stack

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Solutions Engineering
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About Broadcom

10,000+ employees

Broadcom builds semiconductors and infrastructure software used in networking, wireless, broadband, storage, data centers, and enterprise IT. It sells chipsets to OEMs and cloud providers and licenses/subscribes infrastructure software for mainframe, cybersecurity, and private cloud environments. Headquartered in Palo Alto, it is a public company (NASDAQ: AVGO) and expanded its software portfolio by acquiring VMware in 2023.

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