ASIC Engineering Technical Leader

Cisco•San Jose, CA

29d

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

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.
Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.