Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: for U.S. March 7, 2025
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Meet the Team
Join the Cisco Silicon One team in developing a unified silicon architecture for web-scale and service provider networks. Cisco's silicon team provides an outstanding, unique experience for ASIC engineers by combining the resources offered by a sizable multi-geography silicon organization and a large campus (with an on-site gym, healthcare, caf?, social interest groups, and philanthropy) with the startup culture and breadth of growth opportunities that working in a smaller ASIC team can provide.
Your Impact
Write micro-architecture specifications and participate in reviews.
Implement Verilog RTL to meet timing, performance, and power requirements.
Contribute to full chip integration and timing methodology/analysis.
Develop and analyze functional coverage.
Help define, evolve, and support our design methodology.
Collaborate with the verification team to address design bugs and close code coverage.
Work closely with the physical design team to close design timing and place-and-route issues.
Triage, debug, and root cause simulation, software bring-up, and customer failures
Perform diagnostic and post-silicon validation tests in the lab
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 7+ years of ASIC design experience or Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 4+ years of ASIC design experience.
Prior experience working with Verilog or System Verilog programming skills
Experience with simulators/synthesis/static timing constraints and related tools (e.g., VCS, DC, PrimeTime)
Experience with debugging and verification methodologies
Preferred Qualifications:
Understanding of Networking technologies and concepts
Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming)
Experience with formal verification tools
Experience with emulation
#WeAreCisco
#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.
Our passion is connection?we celebrate our employees? diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.
We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer?80 hours each year?allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!
Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Meet the Team
Join the Cisco Silicon One team in developing a unified silicon architecture for web-scale and service provider networks. Cisco's silicon team provides an outstanding, unique experience for ASIC engineers by combining the resources offered by a sizable multi-geography silicon organization and a large campus (with an on-site gym, healthcare, caf?, social interest groups, and philanthropy) with the startup culture and breadth of growth opportunities that working in a smaller ASIC team can provide.
Your Impact
Write micro-architecture specifications and participate in reviews.
Implement Verilog RTL to meet timing, performance, and power requirements.
Contribute to full chip integration and timing methodology/analysis.
Develop and analyze functional coverage.
Help define, evolve, and support our design methodology.
Collaborate with the verification team to address design bugs and close code coverage.
Work closely with the physical design team to close design timing and place-and-route issues.
Triage, debug, and root cause simulation, software bring-up, and customer failures
Perform diagnostic and post-silicon validation tests in the lab
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 7+ years of ASIC design experience or Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 4+ years of ASIC design experience.
Prior experience working with Verilog or System Verilog programming skills
Experience with simulators/synthesis/static timing constraints and related tools (e.g., VCS, DC, PrimeTime)
Experience with debugging and verification methodologies
Preferred Qualifications:
Understanding of Networking technologies and concepts
Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming)
Experience with formal verification tools
Experience with emulation
#WeAreCisco
#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.
Our passion is connection?we celebrate our employees? diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.
We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer?80 hours each year?allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!
Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Key skill Required
- Perl
- Architecture
- Python
- Networking
- Affirmative Action
- Analysis
- Computer Engineering
- Design
- Design Methodology
- Development
- Formal Verification
- Geography
- Healthcare
- Inclusive
- Infrastructure
- Integration
- Internet
- Learning
- Methodology
- Orientation
- Passionate
- Philanthropy
- Physical Design
- Sustainability
- Triage
- Validation
- Verilog
