# HW Board and System Design Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,800.00 - $185,100.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Enterprise Routing organization designs and develops Cisco's Edge and Access routing products.

You will be part of the dynamic team working on innovative projects as a HW Board and System Design engineer for Cisco's Edge and Access routing products.

The role involves hardware board design activities with a strong focus on test, qualification, and readiness for production, spanning all phases of hardware development.

**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 7+ 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

- Experience designing Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGAs or CPLDs using Verilog

- Prior experience in high-speed board design/signal integrity and power distribution

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

The starting salary range posted for this position is $132,800.00 to $185,100.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.

## Skills

### Required
- hardware board design
- x86 processors
- ARM processors
- DDR4/DDR5 memory
- PCIe
- SATA
- USB
- Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL

### Nice to have
- HyperLynx
- SPICE
- Xilinx
- Intel/Altera FPGAs
- Verilog
- high-speed board design
- signal integrity
- power distribution
- Ethernet
- serial interfaces

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