# Hardware Board Design Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, North Carolina
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,200.00 to $201,400.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Enterprise Routing organization at Cisco designs and develops Edge and Access routing products. You will be part of a dynamic team working on innovative projects, architecting the next generation of routing technology using both internally developed and commercially available silicon.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Responsible for hardware board design activities with a strong focus on test, qualification, and readiness for production.

- 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.

- Participate and contribute to the system hardware design.

- Contribute to hardware specification, design, development, and test.

- Drive product from concept to production.

- 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:**

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with 8+ years of experience in hardware board design and development, or a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with 6+ 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, SATA, USB.

- Experience in schematic capture tools like Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL (Concept HDL).

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience in using circuit simulation tools like HyperLynx, SPICE is a plus.

- Experience designing Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGAs or CPLDs using Verilog.

- Prior experience in high-speed board design/signal integrity and power distribution is critical.

- Prior experience in designing Ethernet (10/100/1000Mbps, 10GE, 25GE, 40GE, 100GE) and serial interfaces like I2C, SPI, UART, RS232, etc.

**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 (10 paid holidays, 1 floating holiday, 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles

- Performance-based incentive pay for sales roles

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- hardware board design
- x86 processors
- ARM processors
- DDR4/DDR5 memory
- PCIe
- SATA
- USB
- Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL

### Nice to have
- HyperLynx
- SPICE
- Xilinx
- Intel/Altera FPGAs
- Verilog
- high-speed board design
- signal integrity
- power distribution
- Ethernet
- serial interfaces

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