Auto req ID 16369BR
Job Posting Title Mobile Multimedia Design Engineer - Cambridge, UK
Business Unit Mobile and Wireless Group
Job Description Software Engineer - Cambridge UK
As communications technologies continue to converge in new and exciting ways, career opportunities are emerging at Broadcom in a variety of specialties and locations around the globe.
Cambridge is the headquarters of Broadcom’s Mobile Multimedia group which designs software and hardware for the multimedia chips powering the next generation of mobile phones and media players. These devices support HD video record and playback, 12 Mpixel cameras with advanced image processing, and high-performance 3D for advanced user interfaces, navigation displays, and mobile gaming.
As a talented and creative software engineer, you will be part of an extremely strong technical team developing software for use with our low power multimedia processor, VideoCore. The role involves detailed design, coding and testing of software modules, from code running on the VideoCore system to the integration with host operating systems such as Android. These software modules have to support a wide range of different use cases to cater for range of end products. You may have the opportunity to contribute to top-level discussions on the future development of VideoCore architecture, working alongside our chip design engineers.
OUR BENEFITS PACKAGE INCLUDES:
10% pension contribution (no employee contribution necessary)
25 days holiday
BUPA for self and family
ABOUT BROADCOM
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art, system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.
A FORTUNE 500® company, Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless communications semiconductor companies with 2009 revenue of $4.49 billion, and holds over 4,500 U.S. and 1,900 foreign patents, more than 7,800 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video and data.
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. In the UK we have offices in Cambridge, Bristol, Bracknell, Cirencester and Manchester.
When you connect with Broadcom, you're connecting with one of the leading communications semiconductor companies, as well as a community of talent that designs, develops and supplies a diverse portfolio of products targeted at the most significant broadband communications markets in the world. This is the place to learn, invent and build.
Job Requirements As communications technologies continue to converge in new and exciting ways, career opportunities are emerging at Broadcom in a variety of specialties and locations around the globe.
Cambridge is the headquarters of Broadcom’s Mobile Multimedia group which designs software and hardware for the multimedia chips powering the next generation of mobile phones and media players. These devices support HD video record and playback, 12 Mpixel cameras with advanced image processing, and high-performance 3D for advanced user interfaces, navigation displays, and mobile gaming.
As a talented and creative software engineer, you will be part of an extremely strong technical team developing software for our low power multimedia processor, VideoCore. The role involves detailed design, coding and testing of software modules, from low-level hardware control to high-level demonstration applications. The typical project is centred around the middleware layer with specific emphasis on the different use cases generated by a wide range of end products. You will have the ability to contribute to top-level discussions on the future development of VideoCore architecture, and to work alongside our chip design engineers.
Country United Kingdom
State/Province Cambridgeshire
City/Town Cambridge
Shift 1st Shift - Day
Percent of Travel Required 5% - 10%
Function Engineering
Discipline Software Development
