Advanced Packaging Design Engineering Team Lead (Hybrid)

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 268,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Cisco Silicon One in San Jose seeks a technical leader to drive complex package design programs, mentor engineers, and partner with SI/PI, layout, and manufacturing teams to deliver high-quality package solutions for next‑generation ASIC platforms.

The role emphasizes planning, optimization of pinouts, PDN, and cross-functional collaboration, with a focus on scalable, reliable designs in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field with 8+ years of relevant work experience or Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in high-speed package design, including signal integrity considerations and power distribution networks (PDN).
• Experience with industry-standard EDA tools for package layout and design.
• Experience with technical leadership in complex hardware or silicon development programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex package design programs, planning and driving schedules from concept through implementation and tapeout.
• Optimize package pinouts, stack-ups, power distribution, and high-speed routing, balancing performance, manufacturability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with silicon floor planning, signal integrity (SI), and power integrity (PI) teams to ensure design quality and system-level alignment.
• Work closely with layout editors and implementation teams to deliver high-quality package layouts aligned with interface and manufacturing requirements.
• Serve as the technical and organizational lead of the San Jose package design team, providing mentorship, and technical guidance to engineers.
• Develop and grow package design capability within the team, mentoring engineers and enabling them to take ownership of increasingly complex package programs.
• Coordinate resources across designers, layout editors, and contractors to support efficient project execution.
• Enhance package design methodologies and partner with vendors to improve product quality and efficiency.
• Drive innovation in package solutions for Cisco's next-generation ASIC platforms.

Skills

Team leadership

High-speed design

Package design

Signal integrity

PDN design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

EDA tools

Job description

This position requires that you live within commuting distance of our San Jose, CA office and commute to the office 4-5 days per week.

Meet the Team

Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) is a business organization with a long track record of building complex and high-performance Silicon ASICs. Our silicon devices drive the world's most complex networks and carry over 90% of IP traffic. Cisco Silicon One 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.

We are a highly specialized ASIC team with experts in all aspects of advanced IC package design and heterogeneous system integration. Our substrates use the latest 2.5D fanout technologies for large-scale integration, using the latest signaling and data transfer technologies. 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 in the industry!

Your Impact

This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the future of networking innovation within the Cisco Silicon One initiative. As a technical and team leader, you will drive complex package design programs-from planning and optimization to execution-ensuring the delivery of high-speed, robust, and scalable solutions for global networks.

You will lead and mentor engineers and develop future package leads while collaborating closely with layout, SI/PI, silicon architecture, and manufacturing partners. Your leadership will ensure the delivery of high-quality package designs aligned with system-level requirements.

Beyond technical leadership, you will help shape methodologies, improve development flows, and strengthen cross functional collaboration across Cisco's global silicon organization, while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Lead complex package design programs, planning and driving schedules from concept through implementation and tapeout.
• Optimize package pinouts, stack-ups, power distribution, and high-speed routing, balancing performance, manufacturability, and reliability.
• Collaborate with silicon floor planning, signal integrity (SI), and power integrity (PI) teams to ensure design quality and system-level alignment.
• Work closely with layout editors and implementation teams to deliver high-quality package layouts aligned with interface and manufacturing requirements.
• Serve as the technical and organizational lead of the San Jose package design team, providing mentorship, and technical guidance to engineers.
• Develop and grow package design capability within the team, mentoring engineers and enabling them to take ownership of increasingly complex package programs.
• Coordinate resources across designers, layout editors, and contractors to support efficient project execution.
• Enhance package design methodologies and partner with vendors to improve product quality and efficiency.
• Drive innovation in package solutions for Cisco's next-generation ASIC platforms.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field with 8+ years of relevant work experience or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 6+ years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in high-speed package design, including signal integrity considerations and power distribution networks (PDN).
• Experience with industry-standard EDA tools for package layout and design.
• Experience with technical leadership in complex hardware or silicon development programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in ASIC package design, including pinout optimization and high-speed routing.
• Experience with silicon floor planning and collaboration with SI and PI teams.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineering teams and developing engineers.
• Experience coordinating complex cross-functional hardware development programs.
• Experience with testing and measurement equipment (oscilloscopes, TDR/VNA analyzers).
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, TCL, or shell programming

Why Cisco?

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.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours ofunused sick timecarried forwardfrom one calendar yearto the next
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
• 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
• 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

$186,900.00 - $307,800.00

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

$166,300.00 - $274,100.00

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.