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Design Verification Engineer

Broadcom

Company websitebroadcom.com (Broadcom, opens in new tab)

Base salary $120K  to $192K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Jose Innovation Drive, CA

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  • LocationSan Jose Innovation Drive, CA
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Job Description:

The CSG group at Broadcom has brought some of the most complex and cutting edge networking ASIC's and multichip solutions to market over the last decade. The group

develops Tomahawk ASICs for Scale-Out and Scale-Up AI Networks. These products support the latest networking protocols and features as well as manage extremely large volumes of traffic of the order of several hundreds of Terabits/sec. These networking ASIC's support a large number of ports ranging from 10/100Mb/s to 1600Gb/s speeds as well as various line interfaces and protocols.

The successful candidate will be responsible for various key tasks in the areas of verification of cutting edge network switch routing designs. The daytoday tasks for this position include but are not limited to the following:

1) Participating in the verification processes of L2/L3 Network Switching and routing ASICs and various subsystems within these chips

2) Understanding the architecture and implementation of these chips and coming up with in depth test plans for verifying various key networking features such as L2/L3 traffic streaming, traffic management, scheduling and shaping of traffic, latency and performance characterization of chips and systems.

3) Developing verification environments including testbenches and verification API’s associated with the chip architecture to enable testing of various features within the chips as well as scripts and Makefiles as required to run the environment in various tool chains

4) Implementing test plans into executable test suites using a cutting edge Systemverilog verification environment.

5) Executing the verification process to completion pre-silicon using various functional and code coverage metrics as measures of completion

The successful candidate will satisfy the following requirements:

1) MSEE or BSEE or equivalent, with concentration in digital design and excellent academic standing. Total engineering minimum experience required is typically a BS degree and 8+

years of experience, an MS degree and 6+ years of experience or a PhD and 3+ years of experience or equivalent.

2) Familiar with Hardware description languages (Verilog/SystemVerilog/UVM), scripting languages (Perl, Python) and Object Oriented Programming (OOP).

3) Exposure to cutting edge verification and validation techniques and methodologies using Object Oriented modular reusable environments in languages such as Systemverilog,

Perl, Python

4) Strong understand and prior experience of end-to-end verification process from test plan definition to coverage closure on ASIC/SOC silicon that has gone into mass production

5) Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Additional Job Description:

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $120,000  - $192,000
 

As a valued member of our team, you'll be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus and the opportunity to receive not only a competitive new hire equity grant, but also annual equity awards, connecting your success directly to the company's growth. All subject to relevant plan documents and 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.

If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.

Source: Broadcom on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($120,000) is above 28% of the 4,222 Engineering (non-software) roles nationwide listed on this site; 107 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $136,600; the middle half runs from $116,800 to $160,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 6, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Broadcom roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Broadcom roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Design Verification Engineer (this listing)$120K - $192K
Principal AI Development Engineer$118,800 - $190,000
Test Engineer (ATE)$121,900 - $195,000
R&D Software Engineer VMKernel$121,900 - $195,000
Physical Design Engineer$121,900 - $195,000
Design Engineer - Flow Development$121,900 - $195,000
Physical Design Engineer$121,900 - $195,000

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Broadcom roles · How to read the bar

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Observed since
Employer-stated posting date
2026-05-21
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Location as the employer wrote it: USA-CA San Jose Innovation Drive

The annual base salary range for this position is $120,000 - $192,000

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