# Technical Contributor for Cisco Silicon One Development

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Boston, Massachusetts
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,300.00 to $238,300.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Silicon One team at Cisco creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally.

As a technical contributor for Cisco Silicon One development, you drive the strategy and operation of critical infrastructure by bridging engineering requirements with IT and security capabilities. By managing compute, storage, and networking resources, automating complex EDA workflows, and resolving systemic performance bottlenecks, you ensure high system reliability and operational excellence. Your focus is on reducing development friction and scaling infrastructure to meet capacity demands, ultimately enabling the engineering organization to deliver with greater speed and productivity.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s + 8 years of related experience, or Master’s + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience supporting Linux infrastructure in production environments, including system administration for bare-metal and VM compute, and network storage (NFS and CIFS/SMB).

- Experience supporting enterprise compute environments using IBM Spectrum LSF or a comparable batch scheduling platform, including collaboration with platform owners on workload behavior, capacity, and reliability.

- Prior experience with Shell scripting skills and development in at least one of Perl or Python.

- Experience troubleshooting complex cross-layer issues involving operating systems, tools, storage, networks, and user workflows.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with Verilog, logic synthesis, semiconductor-development workflows, and EDA tools from Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens.

- Cloud-based compute experience with a batch-scheduling environment (e.g. AWS/Azure).

- GNU Make, Jenkins, and automated build-environment experience.

- Exposure with AI-assisted development tools responsibly for scripting, debugging, documentation, and code review, with appropriate human review and security safeguards.

**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

- 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

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- IBM Spectrum LSF
- Shell scripting
- Perl
- Python
- Troubleshooting

### Nice to have
- Verilog
- logic synthesis
- EDA tools
- Cloud-based compute
- GNU Make
- Jenkins
- AI-assisted development tools

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