ASIC Engineering Technical Leader - CDC
About The Position
The Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms—like Silicon One—are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world. Define, design and verify ASIC and ASIC subsystems to be deployed in a range of Cisco platforms. Contribute to a multi-disciplined engineering team to meet the power, performance, and area goals for products. Design, document, and develop ASIC subsystems for release in high volume and quality. Help define the process, methods, and tools for design and implementation of complex developments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s with 8+ years or related experience, or master’s with 6 + years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience
- Prior experience with RTL development skills and experiences
- Prior experience with CDC/RDC concepts and relevant design implementation
- Prior Experience on maintaining CDC/RDC flow and signing-off constraints and waivers
- Prior experience with static glitch harzads and experience on the relevant analysis on synthesis optimized gate netlists
Nice To Haves
- Experience on SDC constraints development
- Experience on VCS simulation SVA (SystemVerilog Assertions)
Responsibilities
- Leads the CDC/RDC (Clock Domain Crossing / Reset Domain Crossing) methodology in silicon one chips
- Design & implement robust and reusable RTL with CDC/RDC considerations
- Spec comprehensive CDC/RDC check flows and work with CAD team to implement
- Review and approve CDC/RDC constraints and waivers
- Perform static glitch analysis
- Improve design with prevention of static glitch hazard
Benefits
- medical insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- 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 day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- paid days off for personal wellness
- paid vacation time
- flexible vacation time off program
- sick time off
- paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses
- performance-based incentive pay
- restricted stock units
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
