Senior Asic Design - Cisco Silicon One
Cisco is hiring a Senior Asic Design - Cisco Silicon One. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cisco.
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- Little AI ●○○○ is how Level rates this role: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Verilog, SystemVerilog and MATLAB.
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Designs advanced ASIC chips and RTL for Cisco Silicon One infrastructure in the routing portfolio.
Meet the Team
Join the Cisco Silicon One Front-End Design team, at the core of Cisco’s silicon development. Our engineers cover the full spectrum of chip design: definition, architecture, micro-architecture, RTL design, verification, signoff, and validation.
We leverage cutting-edge silicon technologies and methodologies to develop the largest-scale and most advanced devices, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Cisco Silicon One™ is transforming the industry with a unified, programmable architecture powering Cisco’s future routing portfolio and shaping the Internet for decades to come.
Your Impact
- Write and review micro-architecture specifications
- Implement RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog) to meet timing, performance, and power requirements
- Contribute to full chip integration, timing methodology, and analysis
- Collaborate with verification engineers to resolve bugs and achieve coverage closure
- Work with the physical design team to close timing and PnR issues
- Support design methodology evolution and best practices
- Perform debug, root-cause analysis, and post-silicon validation in the lab
Minimum Qualifications
- B.Sc./M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from a top university
- RTL design experience
- Familiarity with UVM and functional verification methodologies
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with MATLAB simulations and bit-exact modeling environments
- Familiarity with mixed-signal systems and environments
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with Clock Domain Crossing (CDC)
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.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
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Senior Asic Design - Cisco Silicon One at Cisco rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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