# Senior Hardware Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $167,700.00 - $245,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

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## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Python
- C++
- post-silicon validation
- SoC failure analysis
- Power and signal integrity
- High speed mixed-signal design
- DFT
- SRAM design
- Firmware development

### Nice to have
- complex SoC
- electrical diagnostics
- high-speed physical interfaces
- design for test
- physical design
- logic design
- memory design
- MBIST
- networking fundamentals

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