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Silicon Validation Engineer

Cisco · San Jose, California, US · On-site

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About Cisco

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About the role

The Silicon One team 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 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. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience
  • Prior experience with software design skills using C or C++
  • Prior experience with writing drivers or SDK for ASICS
  • Prior experience with scripting languages such as Python or TCL
  • Prior experience working with Emulator or ASIC bring up environments
More about this role

The application window is expected to close on: 11/29/2026

The Silicon One team 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 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.

  • Develop and maintain ASIC APIs and SDKs in C and C++, delivering clean, scalable updates that support emulation, bring-up, and ongoing feature work.
  • Own tasks that extend verification and test capability, writing Python and TCL scripts that exercise ASIC features and measure performance in the emulation environment.
  • Verify ASIC functionality and performance through structured emulation tests, debugging failures and driving issues to resolution with design and software partners.
  • Contribute to silicon validation...

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