# Hardware Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $138,100.00 to $196,500.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Our Hardware Engineering team is the backbone of Cisco's innovation, designing and delivering next-generation technology that powers the global network.

You will own the end-to-end design and delivery of medium-to-complex hardware features to ensure high-performance product integration.

Responsibilities:

- Contribute to the hardware specification and design review process to maintain alignment with Cisco's quality standards and industry best practices.

- Develop effective test plans and strategies that improve product reliability and performance.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with system designers and diagnostics engineers to resolve board- and system-level challenges and ensure seamless product deployment.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 1+ year of relevant experience.

- Prior experience in hardware design, including board design for networking and compute applications.

- Previous experience designing boards with ARM or x86 microprocessors, with working knowledge of bus technologies including I2C, SPI, and PCIe (up to Gen 5).

- Prior experience in bring-up and debug of boards.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience optimizing hardware for cost, performance, and power efficiency.

- Proficiency in high-speed board design.

- Technical proficiency in hardware validation, testing, and signal integrity methodologies.

- Familiarity with industry-standard hardware automation tools and test frameworks.

- Experience working with cross-functional teams to solve complex board- and system-level issues.

- Previous experience with manufacturing processes to transition designs into quality production.

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

- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year

- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday

- Paid year-end holiday shutdown

- 4 paid days off for personal wellness

- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year

- Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program

- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

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## Skills

### Required
- electrical engineering
- Computer Engineering
- hardware design
- ARM microprocessors
- x86 microprocessors
- I2C
- SPI
- PCIe

### Nice to have
- high-speed board design
- hardware validation
- signal integrity methodologies
- hardware automation tools

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