Post-Silicon Hardware Verification Engineer – Networking ASICs

Cisco; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco's Silicon One team in San Jose is seeking a Hardware Post-Silicon Validation Engineer to test and debug high-performance networking silicon and bring up hardware in lab environments. You will own end-to-end validation, perform PDN and signal integrity analysis, and work with PCIe and SerDes interfaces, using labs and automation scripts to ensure robust silicon.

Collaborate with verification engineers and cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, startup-like culture within Cisco's global

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4+ years in post-silicon electrical validation or
• Master's degree with 2+ years in post-silicon validation or PhD with 0+ years in post-silicon validation

Responsibilities

• 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 detailed 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 in-depth voltage, current, power integrity and signal integrity analysis.
• Capture, analyze, and interpret waveforms, eye diagrams, jitter, BER, PDN measurements and noise.

Skills

Hardware validation

Signal integrity

High-speed measurement

Python scripting

Networking ASICs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering

PhD in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

Logic analyzers

VNAs

Protocol analyzers

BERTs

Multimeters

Python

Job description

Cisco's Silicon One team in San Jose is seeking a Hardware Post-Silicon Validation Engineer to test and debug high-performance networking silicon and bring up hardware in lab environments. You will own end-to-end validation, perform PDN and signal integrity analysis, and work with PCIe and SerDes interfaces, using labs and automation scripts to ensure robust silicon.

Collaborate with verification engineers and cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, startup-like culture within Cisco's global