Senior Hardware Engineer

We are seeking a versatile Senior Hardware Engineer to join the Electrical Post-Silicon Validation Team at Cisco. You will engage in dynamic collaboration with verification engineers, designers, and cross-functional teams, working together to ensure the successful verification and quality of the ASIC throughout its lifecycle.

Your involvement across multiple stages of the product lifecycle offers a unique opportunity to engage with a broad range of technical fields. In this highly visible role, you will play a key part in ensuring our products perform reliably, from pre-silicon validation and post-silicon bring-up through manufacturing support, field issue resolution, and ongoing quality and reliability improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and participate in failure analysis efforts, determining contributing factors and corrective actions.
• Lead activities aiming at improving product performance, yield, and reliability.
• Define, and refine post silicon validation plans covering functionality, performance characterization, and reliability.
• Capture, analyze, and interpret device performance, waveforms, eye diagrams, jitter, BER, PDN measurements, power supply stability and noise.
• Validate system-level behavior using dedicated built in tests and real-world networking workloads.
• Contribute to the chip screening test and observability software library (Python, C++).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of relevant experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 1+ years of relevant related work experience.
• Relevant experience with Electrical post-silicon validation (Vmin, leakage, PVT characterization, …), SoC failure analysis, Power and signal integrity, High speed mixed-signal design, DFT, SRAM design, Firmware (FW) development and/or integration.
• Software development experience with Python, C++ or similar language.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in driving SoC failure analysis efforts.
• Experience in bringing up complex SoC.
• Experience with electrical diagnostics and measurement equipment (Oscilloscopes, VNA, BERT, logic analyzers...).
• Experience in high-speed physical interfaces.
• Experience in design for test (DFT).
• Experience in physical and/or logic design.
• Experience in memory design and MBIST.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $167,700.00 - $245,200.00