Hardware Systems Engineering 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. The High-End Routing hardware team within CHG develops the groundbreaking routers deployed in Service Providers and Data Centers worldwide. We are inventors in our field, using powerful technologies to design a new class of innovative routers supporting the Internet for the Future. Join us and participate in this exciting journey towards the future of connectivity! You will work among engineers as a direct contributor, designing and operating our growing worldwide network infrastructure. Your responsibilities will span from hardware definition to design, and from qualification to final product release to our customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 6+ years of experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering + 3 years in hardware system level development
- Experience with high speed design for Ethernet or PCIe
- Experience collaborating with peer teams such as: Manufacturing, Software, Mechanical, or Signal Integrity
- Experience in Board Design using industry standard tools such as Concept, Allegro, or equivalent tools
- Experience with lab bring up and hardware design validation of products
Nice To Haves
- Experience writing hardware functional specifications
- Experience with High-Speed Network Interfaces (10G/25G/100G)
- Experience with control interfaces such as PCIe, MDIO, SPI, I2C
- Experience designing systems with DDR4/DDR5 DIMMs
- Experience with tackling signal integrity issues and board mounted power design and distribution techniques
- Experience working with programmable devices such as FPGAs, CPLD
- Prior experience with shipping products
Responsibilities
- Designing the hardware for the Cisco 8000 series routers to deliver the best quality and best power efficiency using groundbreaking Serdes technology at the highest bit rates possible.
- Drive hardware product life cycle development including architecture, detailed design, bring up, debug, Hardware Qualification, Release to Manufacturing, sustaining support and field failure support
- Use Cadence/Allegro to develop and collect schematics
- Guide layout and routing phase of the design
- Write hardware specs, develop test plans, bring up hardware with ASIC teams
- Debug issues the lab using analyzers, scopes
- Collaborate multi-functionally with architects, developers, and vendors within Cisco throughout the product development life cycle, solving sophisticated problems along the way.
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
- grants of Cisco 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
- 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 (for non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
