# Senior FPGA Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,900.00 to $225,300.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Networking Hardware Engineering (NHE) group at Cisco creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era. As a Senior FPGA Engineer in Cisco's IoT team, you'll develop capabilities that help industrial networks operate reliably, maintain precise timing, and recover from disruptions.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Translating system and product requirements into FPGA architectures, detailed designs, and hardware/software interfaces

- Developing and maintaining RTL for packet processing, network redundancy, precision timing, and platform control functions

- Defining verification plans and developing simulations that validate functionality, corner cases, and recovery behavior

- Performing synthesis, implementation, timing analysis, and timing closure while balancing performance and resource utilization

- Collaborating with hardware and software engineers on interface definitions, initialization sequences, diagnostics, and system integration

- Supporting hardware bring-up and troubleshooting issues using simulation waveforms, packet captures, register traces, and laboratory tools

- Investigating root causes, implementing corrective changes, and validating fixes across affected platforms

- Delivering reproducible FPGA builds, validated release images, and clear design and release documentation

- Participating in technical reviews, mentoring teammates, and improving reusable designs, verification coverage, and development workflows

The ideal candidate will have:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline with 7+ years of relevant FPGA development experience, or a master's degree in a related discipline with 4+ years of relevant FPGA development experience

- Experience delivering FPGA functionality through the product development lifecycle, including requirements definition, RTL development, simulation, implementation, hardware validation, and production release

- Verilog or SystemVerilog experience in developing synthesizable RTL and maintaining existing designs

- Experience with FPGA development tools, including simulation, synthesis, place and route, timing constraints, and timing closure

- Experience with hardware bring-up and system debugging

Preferred qualifications include:

- Experience collaborating with hardware, software, and verification engineers to define interfaces, resolve technical issues, and deliver working products

- Experience developing FPGA solutions for industrial networking, embedded systems, or other applications requiring high reliability and availability

- Experience with Ethernet packet processing, network redundancy and recovery mechanisms, or precision time synchronization and timestamping

Cisco offers a range of benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.

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## Skills

### Required
- FPGA development
- RTL development
- Verilog
- SystemVerilog
- FPGA development tools

### Nice to have
- Ethernet packet processing
- network redundancy and recovery mechanisms
- precision time synchronization and timestamping
- Python
- Tcl
- shell scripting

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