# ASIC Engineer

**Company**: Cisco Systems
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $155,000.00 to $222,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco Systems is seeking an ASIC Engineer to validate and ensure the quality of next-generation networking platforms.

In this role, you will execute end-to-end system validation across hardware, firmware, and software stacks, ensuring robust performance, scalability, and reliability under real-world and stress conditions.

Responsibilities:

- Define and execute system-level validation strategies for complex networking platforms

- Develop automated test frameworks and build scalable validation environments

- Design and execute tests for throughput, latency, and scale limits

- Perform root cause analysis and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify system-level risks and resolve issues efficiently

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field with 2+ years of experience in system validation, system-level test, bench validation, product engineering, post-silicon validation, or HW/SW integration

- Hands-on experience developing and executing functional, stress, regression, and system-level test plans

- Experience with bench debug using oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, power supplies, or similar lab equipment

- Experience with Python or similar scripting/programming languages for test automation, log analysis, and data processing

- Working knowledge of networking fundamentals, including Ethernet, TCP/IP, routing, and switching

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with ASIC bring-up, post-silicon validation, platform validation, or Product/Test Engineering

- Experience with bench characterization, margin testing, and high-speed interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, and SerDes

- Experience with network test tools or traffic generators such as Ixia or Spirent

- Experience developing or using test automation frameworks and multi-DUT test environments

- Experience with test-data analysis using Python/pandas, JMP, SQL, or similar tools

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, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Linux
- Ethernet
- TCP/IP
- routing
- switching

### Nice to have
- ASIC bring-up
- post-silicon validation
- platform validation
- Product/Test Engineering
- Ixia
- Spirent
- JTAG
- I2C
- SPI
- UART
- MDIO

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