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About the role
FPGA Engineers serve a range of roles at Cisco, from IP creators and architects, to solution integrators, going from concept to production, guiding in solution verification, and ensuring that our products meet Cisco and Industry quality standards. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with 7+ years of relevant experience or master’s degree in electrical engineering with 4 + years of relevant experience
- Experience in full-lifecycle FPGA design
- Experience writing structured, reusable, and optimized Verilog
- Expertise with vendor toolchains, such as Vivado, Quartus or Libero
- Experience with timing closure and writing timing constraints
- Experience with lab work using tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, programming dongles and their SW apps
More about this role
The application window is expected to close on: 12/04/2026
This role requires the employee to work onsite from the San Jose, CA location.
The Network Hardware Engineering group (NHE) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for customers globally. These are cloud-enhanced systems powered by specialized Cisco Silicon One ASICs. These high-bandwidth networking switches deliver performance and functionality that scale to meet the needs of future large Data Centers and AI Clusters.
We are a close-knit, creative, and multi-skilled team where each person is unique, but where we bring our talents together to design complex next generation Data Center switching products. Every team member is empowered to share their ideas and drive meaningful outcomes.
FPGA Engineers serve a range of roles at Cisco, from IP creators and architects, to solution integrators, going from concept to production, guiding in solution verification, and ensuring that our products meet Cisco and Industry quality standards.
- Drive innovation includes but not limited to FPGA design, RTL development (Verilog/SystemVerilog), FPGA...
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