ASIC Design Engineer Technical Lead

Cisco • San Jose, CA

30d • $183,800 - $303,100 • Onsite

About The Position

Join the Cisco Silicon One team in developing a unified silicon architecture for web scale and service provider networks. Cisco’s silicon team provides a unique experience for ASIC engineers by combining the resources offered by a large multi-geography silicon organization and a large campus (with onsite gym, healthcare, and café, social interest groups, and philanthropy), with the startup culture and breadth of growth opportunities that working in a smaller ASIC team can provide.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer engineering and 10+ years of ASIC Design experience or Master’s degree in Electrical or Computer engineering and 8+ years of ASIC Design experience.
• Verilog/System Verilog programming experience.
• Interactive and waveform debug experience.
• Experience resolving setup and hold timing violations with RTL modification.
• Experience developing micro-architecture solutions and RTL implementation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with digital design principles and microarchitecture concepts such as buffering and scheduling architectures.
• Experience with design quality checks including CDC (Clock Domain Crossing) and Spyglass static analysis.
• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming).

Responsibilities

• Participate in and contribute to chip architecture definition and discussions.
• Author design specifications and participate in micro-architecture specification reviews.
• Implement Verilog RTL to meet timing and performance requirements.
• Help define, evolve, and support our design methodology.
• Mentor junior engineers on performing project tasks and problem solving.
• Collaborate with the verification team to address design bugs and close code coverage.
• Work closely with physical design team to close design timing and place-and-route issues.
• Triage, debug, and root cause simulation, software bring-up, and customer failures.
• Perform diagnostic and post silicon validation tests in the lab.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• paid holidays
• floating holiday
• paid time off for employee’s birthday
• paid year-end holiday shutdown
• paid days off for personal wellness
• paid vacation time
• sick time off
• paid time away to volunteer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior