Electrical Post-Silicon Characterization & Validation Engineer

Meet the Team

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.

Your Impact

Drive the resolution of complex silicon performance and characterization issues through deep, multi-functional collaboration with architecture, design, and software teams. Leverage these technical insights to provide critical feedback that directly influences the design, debuggability, and architectural specifications of future silicon components

Lead the Electrical Post Silicon Validation efforts for Silicon One products, focusing on high-speed and power-intensive devices. Collaborate with multi-functional teams to drive the silicon validation process, from architecture through to physical design and DFT. Analyze and interpret characterization data to guide design improvements and ensure product excellence. Develop and execute test plans to validate silicon performance and reliability against stringent specifications. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to silicon performance and characterization.

Be part of team at the forefront of silicon technology, working on the most advanced products in the market. Work closely with some of the best engineers in the industry, driving innovation and excellence in silicon characterization. We are a fast growing team that values talent and provides ample opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

Minimum Qualifications

• B.Sc. in Electrical or Computer Engineering/ Equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in silicon and package characterization, hardware bring-up, or multi-disciplinary system-level validation in an R&D lab environment
• Proficiency with high-speed scopes, VNA, TDR, and phase noise analyzers.
• ASIC bring-up on EVBs, specifically focusing on SerDes and high-speed clock/voltage domains.
• Experience developing validation plans and automation scripts in Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to root-cause issues that jump between the silicon, the package, and the PCB.
• Deep understanding of signal and power integrity (jitter, supply noise, and channel design).
• Background in high-speed optical-electrical validation, including optical eye-diagram analysis, BER testing, and optical-to-electrical SerDes interfaces
• Familiarity with electro-optic integration, Co-Packaged Optics (CPO), or optical transceiver module bring-up and test methodologies. can you make more concise
• Background in using validation data to drive improvements in production flow and chip yield.

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

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