# Hardware Engineering Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Hsinchu, Taiwan
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Common Hardware Group at Cisco is seeking a Hardware Engineering Technical Leader to join their team. As a technical lead, you will define and design next-generation hyperscaler switch hardware based on Silicon One and/or merchant ASIC, as well as CPU subsystems.

Responsibilities include:

- System and board-level specification, schematic capture, FPGA design, ASIC/system-level bring-up, and troubleshooting

- Bringing up the system to work with multiple groups, including ASIC, DFT, Signal Integrity, software, Diagnostics, and Manufacturing teams to resolve design issues

- Debugging and troubleshooting in labs using scopes and analysers

- Acting as a technical liaison with major component suppliers for the product

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Telecommunications and 8+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 6+ years, or PhD with 3+ years of industrial experience

- Prior experience with common HW technology, including power, clock, memory, CPU, and various system interfaces

- Previous experience with complex high-speed board design and board bring-up

- Prior experience with schematics/layout, Hardware bring-up, trouble-shooting, system-level testing

- Experience with working with Software teams on system bring-up and porting, device configuration (registers level)

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with high-speed Ethernet interfaces and optics in 25G, 100G, 400G, 800G, 1.6T

- Experience with x86 or ARM CPU development in Datacentre or Server/HPC

- Experience with schematics, PCB, and Verilog HDL/VHDL design

- Experience with lab bring-up and design validation of products

- Knowledge of the Ethernet protocol is a plus

- Experience with DRAM, CPU sub-complex, and control interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, MDC/MDIO

- Self-motivation, teamwork, and strong communication skills are essential.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Telecommunications
- HW technology
- high-speed board design
- schematics/layout
- Hardware bring-up
- trouble-shooting
- system-level testing

### Nice to have
- high-speed Ethernet interfaces
- optics
- x86 or ARM CPU development
- schematics
- PCB
- Verilog HDL/VHDL design
- lab bring-up
- design validation
- Ethernet protocol
- DRAM
- CPU sub-complex
- control interfaces

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