Senior ASIC Design Engineer

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

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