# Hardware Design Technical Lead

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $171,600.00 - $245,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) 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 Technical Lead, you will be a key member of the Cisco Purpose Built Switch hardware team. You will define and design the next generation Hyperscaler Switch hardware based on Silicon One and/or merchant ASIC. Your responsibilities will include system and board level specification, schematic capture, FPGA design, ASIC/System level bring up and troubleshooting. You will work closely with multiple groups, including ASIC, DFT, Signal Integrity, software, Diagnostics, and Manufacturing teams to resolve any design issues.

Your day-to-day tasks will involve debugging and troubleshooting in labs using scopes and analyzers, and acting as a technical liaison with major component suppliers for the product.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Telecommunications and 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Telecommunications and 6+ years of experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering + 3 years in system level development.

- Prior experience with common HW technology, including power, clock, memory, CPU, and variety of system interfaces.

- Previous experience with complex high-speed board design and board bring-up.

- Prior experience with schematics/layout, Hardware bring-up, trouble-shooting, system level testing.

- Experience with working with Software team on system bring-up and porting, devices configuration (registers level).

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Experience with schematics, PCB and Verilog HDL/VHDL design.

- Experience on scripts (Python, Tcl, etc.).

- Experience with lab bring up and design validation of products.

- Knowledge of the Ethernet protocol.

- Experience with access switch Ethernet interfaces: gigabit, multi gigabit, 10 gigabit.

- Experience with high speed Ethernet interfaces: 25G, 100G, 400G, 800G.

- Experience with DRAM, CPU subcomplex and control interfaces such as PCIe, I2C, SPI, MDC/MDIO.

- Self-motivation, teamwork, and strong 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 (vacation, holidays, sick time).

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

**Salary Range:** $171,600.00 - $245,000.00

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Telecommunications
- HW technology
- schematics/layout
- Hardware bring-up
- trouble-shooting
- system level testing

### Nice to have
- Verilog HDL/VHDL design
- Python
- Tcl
- Ethernet protocol
- gigabit
- multi gigabit
- 10 gigabit
- 25G
- 100G
- 400G
- 800G
- PCIe
- I2C
- SPI
- MDC/MDIO

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