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About the role
The HFST seeks an experienced, proactive Hardware Engineer to architect, design, implement, test, and support hardware security features and solutions across Cisco's portfolio. In this role, you will apply your hardware engineering expertise and embedded systems knowledge to tackle sophisticated hardware security challenges. Responsibilities focus on driving the development and deployment of hardware- and firmware-based security technologies that ensure the trustworthiness of Cisco products. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Education & Experience: B.S. in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field with 5+ years of relevant experience (or M.S. with 3+ years of experience)
- HDL Design & Verification: Prior experience in HDL (FPGA/ASIC) design or verification (e.g. Verilog, VHDL, System Verilog)
- Troubleshooting & Lab Bring-Up: Prior experience with board-level bring-up and debug using hardware debug tools and lab equipment (e.g., oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG/SWD, and evaluation boards)
- CPU Architectures: Experience with x86 and ARM CPU architectures, boot flow, and bootstrap / firmware execution
- Scripting & Automation: Scripting language experience for automation using Python or Linux shell scripts
- Security Architecture: Background in security-related design principles, threat modeling, and secure hardware architecture
More about this role
The application window is expected to close on: 11/29/2026
The successful applicant will be performing work on US Government classified environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil.
The Security & Trust Organization (S&TO) has corporate-level responsibility for customer data protection and compliance, corporate information protection, and government and product security. Security is a key concern of our customers and a top investment area for Cisco. Join us and help us become the #1 Trusted IT Company in the World.
Within S&TO, the Foundational Security Technologies (FST) team seeks to increase product security and trustworthiness across a broad range of Cisco products through development, integration and deployment of reusable software and hardware solutions. Within Foundational Security, the Hardware & Firmware Security Team (HFST) focuses on security solutions implemented at the hardware and firmware level.
The HFST seeks an experienced, proactive Hardware...
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