Description
Cisco's Client Optics Group (COG) designs and delivers high-speed optical transceivers and platforms that power Cisco's core data center networking solutions. As a Digital Design Lead, you will provide technical leadership in the development of digital logic for silicon photonics, ensuring high-performance outcomes for optical interconnects. You will manage the full ASIC lifecycle, from architectural conception to tapeout and post-silicon production support, while overseeing the integration of digital logic with analog and mixed-signal blocks.
Responsibilities include:
- Contributing individually during all design activities from Pre-Silicon RTL to GDS2 signoff and post-silicon activities
- Designing complex digital blocks and CPU subsystems
- Propagating top-level specifications to block-level specifications for high-speed datapath and low-speed control planes
- Reviewing verification coverage and signing off on coverage metrics
- Supporting all backend activities such as synthesis, timing closure, DFT, and low-power design
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, or a related field
- 8-12 years of industry experience with hands-on experience in digital design
- Familiarity with protocols such as SPI, I2C, APB, AXI, or similar interfaces and high-speed SerDes, Ethernet, D2D PHY IP, and protocols
- Strong knowledge of ASIC/SoC design flow, including RTL development using SystemVerilog, simulation, lint, CDC/RDC, synthesis, formal/equivalence checking, DFT, and implementation handoff