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Hardware Design Engineer - PCB, Schematic, board design

Cisco Bangalore On-site mid full-time

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Description

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) 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 Engineer, you will participate and contribute to the system hardware design, hardware specification, design, development, and test. You will work closely with software, diagnostics, manufacturing, marketing, EDVT, and MDVT test teams throughout the development process.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Participate and contribute to the system hardware design.
  • Contribute to hardware specification, design, development, and test.
  • Work under department strategy and direction.
  • Work closely with software, diagnostics, manufacturing, marketing, EDVT, and MDVT test teams throughout the development process.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • BSEE or MSEE with 5+ years of experience in hardware board design and development.
  • Prior experience in designing with x86 and/or ARM processors.
  • Prior experience in designing with DDR4/DDR5 memory, PCIe gen1/gen2, SATA, USB.
  • Experience in schematic capture tools like Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL (Concept HDL).

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Benefits: No benefits mentioned in the job posting.

Skills

Required

  • hardware board design
  • x86 processors
  • ARM processors
  • DDR4/DDR5 memory
  • PCIe gen1/gen2
  • SATA
  • USB
  • Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL (Concept HDL)

Nice to have

  • Ethernet
  • serial interfaces like I2C
  • SPI
  • UART
  • RS232
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