Ethernet NIC System Architect: OS, ASIC & PCIe

Broadcom, Inc.; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Equity grant and annual equity awards

Medical, dental and vision plans

401(K) with company match

ESPP

Job summary

Broadcom is seeking an architect for DCSG to define software and hardware requirements for next‑gen Ethernet NICs. You will collaborate with customers, software teams and the ASIC design group to shape new solutions a system-wide perspective on deployment, use cases and ecosystem.

Responsibilities include guiding system software architecture, evaluating NIC tradeoffs, and contributing to standards bodies. Strong RTL/Verilog, OS kernel, and networking expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 10+ years of industry work experience, or
• Master's degree plus 8+ years of industry work experience, or
• PhD plus 5+ years of industry work experience
• Experience in the design or programming of networking devices, such as NIC, HBA, switch or similar
• ASIC design knowledge or experience, such as RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog) and micro-architecture
• Good communication skills, including writing technical specifications; collaborative team player
• Knowledge in one of the following fields: cloud data center networks, virtual switching (e.g., OVS), RDMA (RoCE or InfiniBand), storage stacks (virtio-block, NVMe)
• Experience with OS kernel and user mode programming for Windows/Linux, with an understanding of memory, process, thread and I/O management

Responsibilities

• Interact with enterprise and cloud data center customers
• Explore architectural tradeoffs across NIC hardware and software
• Help with the ASIC design of new Ethernet NICs
• Drive system software architecture requirements
• Provide clear verbal and written direction to development teams
• Support Broadcom's participation in standards bodies (e.g., IEEE 802.3, PCI-SIG, OCP)

Skills

C/C++

Python

Linux drivers

Verilog/SystemVerilog

OS kernel programming

Networking device design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or related field

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog)

Job description

Broadcom is seeking an architect for DCSG to define software and hardware requirements for next‑gen Ethernet NICs. You will collaborate with customers, software teams and the ASIC design group to shape new solutions a system-wide perspective on deployment, use cases and ecosystem.

Responsibilities include guiding system software architecture, evaluating NIC tradeoffs, and contributing to standards bodies. Strong RTL/Verilog, OS kernel, and networking expertise are essential.