# Hardware Design Technical Lead

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Richfield, Ohio
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $161,900.00 to $223,700.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally.

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

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:

- Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience

- 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 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

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

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 (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)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Silicon One
- ASIC
- FPGA
- Verilog HDL
- VHDL
- Python
- Tcl
- Ethernet

### Nice to have
- schematics
- PCB
- lab bring up
- design validation
- gigabit
- multi gigabit
- 10 gigabit
- 25G
- 100G
- 400G
- 800G
- DRAM
- CPU subcomplex
- PCIe
- I2C
- SPI
- MDC/MDIO

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