Senior Technical Leader ASIC Engineering

Who We Are

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. With ~2,100 employees across 16 countries, we design the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers of various sizes, the Public Sector, and Non-Profit Organizations across the world. Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) is the only unifying silicon architecture in the market that enables customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches all the way through web scale data centers and across service provider, enterprise networks, and data centers with a fully unified routing and switching portfolio. Come join us and take part in shaping Cisco's ground-breaking solutions by designing, developing and testing some of the most complex ASICs being developed.

Who You'll Work With

Come join us and take part in shaping Cisco's revolutionary solutions for data centers by designing some of the most complex chips being developed in the industry with the opportunity to get full exposure to all aspects of the systems and applications we build (Silicon, Hardware, Software, telemetry, security, etc). Our group offers a unique combination of a startup culture with the benefits of working for the leading networking company in the world!

What You'll Do

The Core Hardware Business Unit is looking for a motivated Senior Verification engineer/lead to engage in new development of our UCS family. You will have an ASIC design and verification background with hands-on experience in RTL verification and in-depth knowledge of SoC development cycle and the best industry practices, from specification through tape-out and lab validation, and a proven track record of success in high-performance/high-volume semiconductor markets.

What you'll do

• Architect block, cluster and top level DV environment infrastructure
• Create DV infrastructure from scratch for block, cluster and top level environments
• Maintaining existing DV environments and enhancing them
• Ensuring complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage
• Working closely with designers
• Supporting tests done with emulation
• Work closely with software teams and debug issues found during firmware development
• Be responsible for ASIC bring up

Who You Are

12+ years ASIC design verification experience and collaborate closely with verification engineers, designers, hardware & cross functional teams to verify the ASIC in simulation, in emulation and during ASIC bring up.

Minimum requirements

• Bachelor's or a Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering required with at least 12 years of experience in ASIC Design
  
• ASIC verification using UVM/System Verilog.
• Prior experience in verifying complex blocks, clusters and top level for SoC
• Build testbenches from scratch, hands on experience with System Verilog constraints, structures and classes.
• Scripting with Perl and/or Python
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, and possess the drive to learn and grow
• Prior domain experience on one or more protocols - PCIe, Ethernet, RDMA, TCP, FC
• You have lead a team of engineers to complete verification of a complex block, cluster or chip-level design

Preferred Skills

• Lead verification for a complete SOC or ASIC
• Experience with Forwarding logic/Parsers/P4
• Experience with Veloce/Palladium/Zebu/HAPS
• Prior verification experience (iev/vc formal) knowledge

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

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