# Hardware Design Engineer Technical Lead at Cisco

- Company: Cisco
- What the company does: Cisco is a worldwide technology leader powering an inclusive future for all. Learn more about our products, services, solutions, and innovations. Backed by Sequoia and Menlo.
- Company website: https://www.cisco.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: 2 Locations
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/San-Jose-California-US/Hardware-Design-Engineer-Technical-Lead_2014522-1
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cisco-hardware-design-engineer-technical-lead/

## 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.)