# HW Design Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Caesarea, Israel
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Silicon One team at Cisco is seeking an experienced HW Design Leader to join their innovative hardware platform development team.

As the HW Design Leader, you will lead the board design team and PCB CAD engineers responsible for developing complex hardware platforms, including EVBs and test boards.

Key responsibilities include:

- Guiding designs from initial requirements through schematic capture, layout, lab bring-up, and manufacturing release

- Leading, mentoring, and developing a team of schematic designers and PCB CAD engineers across concurrent hardware programs

- Managing PCB CAD engineers to oversee layout development, design constraints, and design rule compliance

- Leading cross-functional design reviews with Electrical, SI/PI, Mechanical, Thermal, Packaging, and Manufacturing teams

- Supporting prototype builds, board bring-up, lab debugging, and design handoffs to NPI and contract manufacturers

To qualify, you will need:

- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering or a related field, with 8+ years of experience designing complex electronic boards or hardware platforms in an R&D environment

- Proven experience leading board design activities or mentoring a team of hardware design engineers

- Strong background in schematic design, board architecture, and hardware design reviews

- Experience working with PCB layout and CAD teams and understanding PCB design constraints

- Experience managing technical schedules, design deliverables, and cross-functional action items across engineering and manufacturing teams

Preferred qualifications include:

- Experience developing EVBs, test boards, or networking, switching, routing, or server hardware

- Experience with high-speed digital designs, SerDes, Ethernet, PCIe, or DDR interfaces

- Familiarity with signal and power integrity, PCB stack-up definition, and design-for-manufacturing practices

- Experience with board bring-up, lab validation, and hardware debug

- Familiarity with PCB CAD tools such as Cadence Allegro and OrCAD

- Experience taking hardware designs from concept through qualification and production

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- schematic design
- board architecture
- hardware design reviews
- PCB layout
- CAD

### Nice to have
- high-speed digital designs
- SerDes
- Ethernet
- PCIe
- DDR interfaces
- signal and power integrity
- PCB stack-up definition
- design-for-manufacturing practices
- Cadence Allegro
- OrCAD

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