# Hardware Lab Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $152,500.00 to $219,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

You will join the Cisco Silicon One team, responsible for enabling and supporting the full lifecycle of silicon and hardware development by operating and evolving a world-class hardware lab environment.

Key responsibilities:

- Own and manage day-to-day operation of the hardware lab supporting ASIC bring-up, EVB development, validation, and system debug.

- Ensure lab readiness for critical milestones such as silicon power-on, bring-up, qualification, and customer enablement.

- Provide hands-on technical support in the lab for EVB bring-up, debug, failure analysis.

- Manage lab infrastructure, equipment, and resources including scopes, analyzers, power supplies, sockets, pogo pins, handlers, and automation tools.

- Coordinate lab usage and priorities across multiple projects and global teams.

- Work closely with cross-functional teams including board design, package, mechanical, thermal, SI/PI, test, production, and validation.

- Drive continuous improvement of lab processes, workflows, safety, and efficiency.

- Interface with external vendors and partners for lab equipment, sockets, and manufacturing support.

- Support remote teams and cross-site collaboration by hosting and managing shared lab resources.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or related field with 5+ years of experience in hardware labs, silicon validation, EVB bring-up, or system-level debug.

- Prior hands-on experience with lab equipment (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, thermal tools).

- Prior experience supporting ASIC or SoC bring-up and validation.

- Prior experience with sockets, pogo pins, packages, and mechanical constraints.

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 (10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees)

- Flexible vacation time off program

- Sick time off

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- hardware labs
- silicon validation
- EVB bring-up
- system-level debug
- lab equipment
- ASIC or SoC bring-up and validation

### Nice to have
- troubleshooting skills

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