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About the role
Hardware design technical lead is a key member of the Cisco Purpose Built Switch hardware team. Define and design the next generation Hyperscaler Switch hardware based on Silicon One and/or merchant ASIC.
What they're looking for
- Prior experience with common HW technology, including power, clock, memory, CPU, and variety of system interfaces
- Previous experience with complex high-speed board design and board bring-up
- Prior experience with schematics/layout, Hardware bring-up, trouble-shooting, system level testing
- Experience with working with Software team on system bring-up and porting, devices configuration (registers level)
- Experience with schematics, PCB and Verilog HDL/VHDL design
- Experience on the scripts (Python, Tcl, etc.)
More about this role
The application window is expected to close on: 09/29/2026
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.
Hardware design technical lead is a key member of the Cisco Purpose Built Switch hardware team.
Define and design the next generation Hyperscaler Switch hardware based on Silicon One and/or merchant ASIC.
Responsible for system and board level specification, schematic capture, FPGA design, ASIC/System level bring up and troubleshooting.
The individual is expected to bring up the system to work with multiple groups including ASIC, DFT, Signal Integrity, software, Diagnostics and...
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