Senior Design Engineer

You'll be joining a team of world-class circuit designers and will work on communication circuits using state-of-the art CMOS FinFet technologies with feature sizes of 3nm and below.

You will be responsible for supporting design flows with leading industry design tools as well as finding, analyzing and implementing innovative circuit designs for high-speed wireline SerDes IP blocks. You will develop, optimize and verify these circuits in both schematic and layout, as well as characterize the manufactured devices in measurements.

Who You'll Work With

The team you will work with has an outstanding history in delivering innovative ideas and world-leading circuit solutions in silicon, which is manifested by a long track record of publications and contributions to products in the past.

Also, you'll be part of our Group driving our game changing next generation network devices - Cisco Silicon One. We are transforming the industry and building a new internet for the 5G era, providing a unified, programmable silicon architecture that is the foundation of all Cisco's future routing products.

Our devices are designed to be universally adaptable across AI, service providers and web-scale markets, designed for fixed and modular platforms. Our devices deliver high speed without sacrificing programmability, buffering, power efficiency, scale or feature flexibility.

Cisco Silicon One is a revolutionary, ground-breaking technology for our customers and end users for decades to come! The Internet now has a faster, better and safer engine!

Who You Are

We are looking for exceptional individuals to join our team:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Electrical engineer with 10+ years’ experience in high-speed wireline SerDes design.
• EE degree from an excellent university
• Expertise with Cadence Virtuoso CAD design environment– including custom layout, DRC, LVS, and parasitic extraction
• In-depth knowledge of version and project management tools such as SOS and Jira
• Custom analog and mixed-signal circuit design expertise in CMOS, ideally with experience in 5nm or smaller CMOS FinFet technologies

Advantageous

• Good team player
• You should be eager to learn and succeed!
• Basic knowledge of signal processing and communication systems
• Experience with measurement equipment
• Programming skills with: Skill, VerilogA, Tcl, Perl, Python, Matlab, C
• Experience with other CAD tools (Siemens/Mentor, Synopsis)
• Experience with digital design flow and tools for synthesis and P&R
• Experience with coil design using EM field simulator such as EMX, Momentum and HFSS
• Knowledge of packaging technology

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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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Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days ofvacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Offpolicy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours ofunused sick timewill be carried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the nextsuch that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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