# Hardware Design Technical Lead

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $171,600.00 to $245,000.00
**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 Hardware Design Technical Lead, you will be a key member of the Cisco Purpose Built Switch hardware team. Your responsibilities will include defining and designing the next generation Hyperscaler Switch hardware based on Silicon One and/or merchant ASIC. You will be responsible for system and board level specification, schematic capture, FPGA design, ASIC/System level bring up and troubleshooting.

Key responsibilities:

- Define and design next-generation Hyperscaler Switch hardware

- System and board-level specification, schematic capture, FPGA design

- ASIC/System level bring-up and troubleshooting

- Collaborate with multiple groups, including ASIC, DFT, Signal Integrity, software, Diagnostics, and Manufacturing teams

- Debug and troubleshoot in labs using scopes and analyzers

- Act as technical liaison with major component suppliers

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Telecommunications and 8+ years of experience

- Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Telecommunications and 6+ years of experience

- PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering + 3 years in system-level development

- 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 with scripts (Python, Tcl, etc.)

- Experience with lab bring-up and design validation of products

- Knowledge of Ethernet protocol

- 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

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per year to volunteer

Salary range for U.S. and Canada:

- $171,600.00 to $245,000.00 per year

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Telecommunications
- HW technology
- FPGA design
- ASIC/System level bring-up

### Nice to have
- Verilog HDL/VHDL design
- Python
- Tcl
- Ethernet protocol
- PCIe
- I2C
- SPI
- MDC/MDIO

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