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Leader, Hardware Engineer

Cisco San Jose, California On-site senior full-time

Salary

$194,600 to $285,700 per year

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Description

The Leader, Hardware Engineer is a key member of the Cisco Purpose Built Switch hardware team. The team is expected to bring up the system to work with multiple groups including ASIC, DFT, Signal Integrity, software, Diagnostics and Manufacturing team to resolve any design issues.

Responsibilities:

  • Define and design the next generation Hyperscaler Switch hardware based on Silicon One and/or merchant ASIC.
  • Leading a team of dedicated engineers for system and board level specification, schematic capture, FPGA design, ASIC/System level bring up and troubleshooting.
  • Leads large and/or complex projects from requirements to execution to completion
  • Develops action plans for optimal resource utilization and management of financial/material resource usage, including supporting Cisco net zero standards
  • Act as technical liaison with major component Suppliers for the product

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelors + 15 years of related experience, or Masters + 12 years of related experience, or PhD + 8 years of related experience Also requires 4+ years of supervisory experience.
  • Experience with complex high-speed board design and board bring-up.
  • Experience with schematics/layout, Hardware bring-up, trouble-shooting, system level testing.
  • Experience in managing teams and leading technical projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with working with Software team on system bring-up and porting, devices configuration
  • Prior experience with common HW technology, including power, clock, memory, CPU, and variety of system interfaces.
  • Experience with schematics, PCB and Verilog HDL/VHDL design
  • Experience on the scripts (Python, Tcl, etc.)
  • Experience with lab bring up and design validation of products
  • Knowledge on the Ethernet protocol is a plus
  • Experience with access switch Ethernet interfaces: gigabit, multi gigabit, 10 gigabit.
  • Experience with high-speed Ethernet interfaces: 25G, 100G, 400G, 800G.
  • Experience with DRAM, CPU subcomplex and control interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, MDC/MDIO

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
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness
  • Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year
  • Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • Software team
  • system bring-up
  • porting
  • devices configuration
  • power
  • clock
  • memory
  • CPU
  • system interfaces
  • schematics
  • PCB
  • Verilog HDL/VHDL design
  • scripts (Python, Tcl, etc.)
  • lab bring up
  • design validation
  • Ethernet protocol
  • gigabit
  • multi gigabit
  • 10 gigabit
  • 25G
  • 100G
  • 400G
  • 800G
  • DRAM
  • CPU subcomplex
  • control interfaces (PCIe, I2C, SPI, MDC/MDIO)

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