Emulation Engineer, Technical Leader
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. You will work with Cisco’s best-in-class switching solution team. Our team is responsible for driving integration of the Nexus systems and ACI with software, including OpenStack, Docker, and Open vSwitch, to help our customers build multi-tenant clouds.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in EE (Electrical & Electronics) or CE (Computer Engineering) with 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Prior emulation experience on platforms such as Palladium Z3, Veloce, as well as experience with compilation, debug, performance testing.
- Prior experience with RTL development for Emulation prototypes.
- Prior experience with C/C++ and TCL infrastructure development.
- Prior experience with System debug tools like gdb, waveform debuggers.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with scripting programs (e.g., Python, Perl or similar)
- Prior experience with UVM and System Verilog.
- Post Silicon functional validation or debugging experience is a plus.
- Experience with protocols e.g. PCie, I2C, Ethernet packet headers, Ethernet protocol is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Develop innovative emulation environments that will be used to evaluate the performance and functionality of multi-terabit systems.
- Developing emulation infrastructure using C/C++ and TCL
- As a team member, work closely with the design, DV, power, and post-silicon diagnostic teams.
- Assist with test plan design, test implementation, and debugging during the pre-silicon emulation process.
- Develop tests to generate complex traffic, and performance scenarios to catch potential post-Silicon issues during the Pre-Silicon phase.
- Work with leading emulation vendors to solve issues.
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
- restricted stock units
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
