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