# Hardware Engineering Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore, India
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are part of Cisco's Common Hardware Group, specialising in hardware system development for Service Provider routers.

As a Hardware Engineering Technical Leader, you will contribute to architecture definition and system feasibility studies, develop hardware specifications and test plans, capture schematics using Cadence/Allegro, collaborate with ASIC, FPGA, and Software teams for hardware bring-up, support product qualification and review test reports, debug issues in the lab, and analyse system logs.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Bachelor's/Master's in Electrical or Electronics Engineering

- 12+ years' experience in system-level development, preferably in the server/computer/network industry

- Experience in Ethernet, high-speed SERDES (>25G) interfaces, high-speed design, and signal integrity

- Experience in X86 architecture and control interfaces such as PCIe, MDIO, SPI, I2C

- Experience in designing with DDR5 and SSD memory devices

- Hands-on board design knowledge, familiar with design tools including Cadence Concept and Allegro

- Experience with hardware bring-up and design validation of products

- Ability to collaborate with other subject areas, including FPGA, software, mechanical, thermal, signal integrity, and Manufacturing

- Prior experience with shipping products in troubleshooting field issues and Failure Analysis

- Familiarity with industry standards for Telecom and electronic equipment (EMC, Safety, Environmental, Telecom)

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Knowledge of signal integrity and system thermal design

- Basic scripting skill for test automation

- Good English written and verbal communications

- Self-motivation, partnership, and strong interpersonal skills

- Mentoring junior team members

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Electronics Engineering
- System-level development
- Ethernet
- SERDES
- Signal Integrity
- X86 architecture
- PCIe
- MDIO
- SPI
- I2C
- DDR5
- SSD memory devices
- Board design
- Cadence Concept
- Allegro
- Hardware bring-up
- Design validation

### Nice to have
- System thermal design
- Scripting
- English communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Mentoring

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