# Technical Lead - Package Design

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $214,100.00 - $309,800.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead - Package Design to join our Cisco Silicon One team in San Jose, CA.

As a technical and team leader, you will drive complex package design programs,from planning and optimization to execution,ensuring the delivery of high-speed, robust, and scalable solutions for global networks.

Responsibilities:

- Lead complex package design programs, planning and driving schedules from concept through implementation and tapeout.

- Optimize package pinouts, stack-ups, power distribution, and high-speed routing, balancing performance, manufacturability, and reliability.

- Collaborate with silicon floor planning, signal integrity (SI), and power integrity (PI) teams to ensure design quality and system-level alignment.

- Work closely with layout editors and implementation teams to deliver high-quality package layouts aligned with interface and manufacturing requirements.

- Serve as the technical and organizational leader of the San Jose package design team, providing direction, mentorship, and technical guidance to engineers.

- Develop and grow package design capability within the team, mentoring engineers and enabling them to take ownership of increasingly complex package programs.

- Coordinate resources across designers, layout editors, and contractors to support efficient project execution.

- Enhance package design methodologies and partner with vendors to improve product quality and efficiency.

- Drive innovation in package solutions for Cisco’s next-generation ASIC platforms.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related field with 12+ years of work experience or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 8+ years of work experience.

- Experience in high-speed package design, including signal integrity considerations and power distribution networks (PDN).

- Experience with industry-standard EDA tools for package layout and design.

- Experience with technical leadership in complex hardware or silicon development programs.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Extensive experience in ASIC package design, including pinout optimization and high-speed routing.

- Knowledge of silicon floor planning and strong collaboration with SI and PI teams.

- Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams and developing technical talent.

- Experience coordinating complex cross-functional hardware development programs.

- Experience with testing and measurement equipment (oscilloscopes, TDR/VNA analyzers).

- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, TCL, or shell programming.

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).

- Opportunities for professional growth and development.

Salary Range: $214,100.00 - $309,800.00 per year

## Skills

### Required
- high-speed package design
- signal integrity
- power distribution networks
- EDA tools
- technical leadership

### Nice to have
- ASIC package design
- pinout optimization
- high-speed routing
- silicon floor planning
- team leadership
- scripting languages

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