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ASIC Engineer

Cisco full-time

Salary

$125,700 - $203,100 per year

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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 an ASIC Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing Cisco’s revolutionary data center solutions. You will collaborate closely with verification engineers, designers, hardware, and other cross-functional teams to verify the ASIC in simulation, in emulation, and during ASIC bring-up to help guarantee seamless integration and optimal performance of Cisco’s hardware platforms.

Responsibilities:

  • Maintain and enhance existing DV environments
  • Construct test benches, including scoreboards, agents, sequencers, and monitors for new blocks
  • Write test plans, develop test cases, debug regression failures, and drive to module verification closure
  • Ensure complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree with 0 years of work experience or Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of work experience in ASIC Engineering, Verification, or a related field
  • Experience with System Verilog and UVM methodology
  • Experience with scripting using Perl and/or Python

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience using UVM and SystemVerilog for ASIC verification and verifying complex blocks and/or clusters within ASICs
  • Experience with functional coverage and constrained random DV environments
  • Experience in verifying complex blocks, clusters, and top-level for SoC
  • Experience with Veloce/HAPS
  • Experience building test benches from scratch, including experience in SystemVerilog constraints, structures, and classes
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills

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
  • 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

Salary Range: $125,700.00 - $203,100.00 (New York City Metro Area) $111,700.00 - $180,800.00 (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • UVM
  • SystemVerilog
  • functional coverage
  • constrained random DV environments
  • Veloce/HAPS
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