Description
The Common Hardware Group (CHG) at Cisco creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally.
This role spans all phases of hardware development, from architecture and design through bring-up, validation, and qualification, combining deep technical expertise with leadership and cross-functional coordination.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Participate and contribute to the system hardware design.
- Contribute to hardware specification, design, development, and test.
- Work under department strategy and direction.
- Independently resolve and develop approaches to solutions.
- Work closely with software, diagnostics, manufacturing, marketing, EDVT, and MDVT test teams throughout the development process.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BSEE or MSEE with 7+ years of experience in hardware board design and development.
- Prior experience of taking a design from concept to production.
- Prior experience in designing with x86 and/or ARM processors.
- Prior experience in designing with DDR4/DDR5 memory, PCIe gen1/gen2, SATA, USB.
- Experience in schematic capture tools like Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL (Concept HDL).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience designing Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGAs or CPLDs using Verilog.
- Prior experience in high-speed board design/signal integrity and power distribution.
- Prior experience in designing Ethernet (10/100/1000Mbps, 10GE, 25GE, 40GE, 100GE) and serial interfaces like I2C, SPI, UART, RS232, etc.
Benefits: No benefits mentioned in the job posting.