Hands-On Post-Silicon Validation Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); In loco; USD 155.000 - 223.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

RSU grants

Descrizione del lavoro

Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA is seeking a Hardware Post-Silicon Validation Engineer to join the Post-Silicon Validation Team. This role focuses on hands-on silicon validation, early bring-up, electrical measurements, and end-to-end root-cause analysis of silicon, packaging, and boards.

You will work with Ethernet MAC/PHY, PCIe, and SerDes, and develop lab automation using Python to support testing and validation across complex networking silicon.

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related field with 4+ years of post-silicon validation experience, or Master's with 2+ years, or PhD with 0+ years.

Mansioni

• Lead hands-on post-silicon electrical validation in lab environments for networking ASICs and evaluation platforms.
• Own early-silicon bring-up activities from first power-on through feature enablement.
• Define, execute, and refine hardware validation plans covering functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Drive validation readiness, lab infrastructure setup, and test coverage strategy.
• Lead power-on sequencing, reset strategy validation, clock bring-up, and strap configuration.
• Perform voltage, current, PDN, and signal integrity analyses.

Conoscenze

Electronics

Digital logic

Signal integrity

Power integrity

Eye diagrams

Jitter

PCIe

DDR5

SerDes

Schematics

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering

PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering

Strumenti

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

VNAs

Protocol analyzers

BERTs

Multimeters

Descrizione del lavoro

Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose, CA is seeking a Hardware Post-Silicon Validation Engineer to join the Post-Silicon Validation Team. This role focuses on hands-on silicon validation, early bring-up, electrical measurements, and end-to-end root-cause analysis of silicon, packaging, and boards.

You will work with Ethernet MAC/PHY, PCIe, and SerDes, and develop lab automation using Python to support testing and validation across complex networking silicon.