# Hardware Design Technical Lead

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) at Cisco is looking for a Hardware Design Technical Lead to join their team.

As a Hardware Design Technical Lead, you will be a key member of the Cisco Purpose Built Switch hardware team, responsible for defining and designing the next generation Hyperscaler Switch hardware based on Silicon One and/or merchant ASIC, as well as CPU subsystem.

Responsibilities:

- Define and design the next generation Hyperscaler Switch hardware

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

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

- Debug and troubleshoot in labs using scopes and analyzers

- Act as technical liaison with major component Suppliers for the product

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Telecommunications and 5 years of experience, or Master’s degree with 3+ years

- Prior experience with common HW technology, including power, clock, memory, CPU, and variety of 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 team on system bring-up and porting, devices 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 Datacenter or Server/HPC

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

- Experience with lab bring up and design validation of products

- Knowledge on the Ethernet protocol is a plus

- Experience with DRAM, CPU subcomplex 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 subcomplex
- PCIe
- I2C
- SPI
- MDC/MDIO

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