Emulation Engineer

Cisco•San Jose, CA

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. We design the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers of various sizes, the Public Sector, and Non-Profit Organizations across the world. Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) is the only unifying silicon architecture in the market that enables customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches all the way through web scale data centers and across service providers, enterprise networks, and data centers with a fully unified routing and switching portfolio. Come join us and take part in shaping Cisco's ground-breaking solutions by designing, developing, and testing some of the most complex ASICs being developed in the industry. 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 multitenant clouds.

Requirements

Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience.
Prior emulation experience on platforms such as Palladium, Veloce, or Zebu 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 pioneering 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 team members 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
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
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
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
annual bonuses
performance-based incentive pay
restricted stock units