Senior ASIC Engineering Leader — Scalable AI Hardware

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Silicon One is seeking a technical contributor to drive the strategy and operation of critical infrastructure. You will bridge engineering requirements with IT and security capabilities, managing compute, storage, and networking resources to scale workloads and automate EDA workflows.

Role focuses on reducing development friction, ensuring reliability, and enabling the engineering organization to deliver with speed and productivity in a cutting-edge silicon environment.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting Linux infrastructure in production environments, including system administration for bare-metal and VM compute, and network storage (NFS and CIFS/SMB).
• Experience with IBM Spectrum LSF or comparable batch scheduling platform, collaborating with platform owners on workload behavior, capacity, and reliability.
• Shell scripting skills and development in at least one of Perl or Python.
• Experience troubleshooting complex cross-layer issues involving operating systems, tools, storage, networks, and user workflows.

Responsibilities

• Bridge engineering requirements with IT and security capabilities to run critical infrastructure.
• Manage compute, storage, and networking resources to support scalable infrastructure.
• Automate complex EDA workflows and reduce development friction.
• Ensure high system reliability and operational excellence across the silicon development stack.

Skills

Linux infrastructure

Shell scripting

Perl

Python

Batch scheduling

Networking storage

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8 years experience

Master's degree + 6 years experience

PhD + 3 years experience

Tools

IBM Spectrum LSF

Verilog/EDA tools (Synopsys/Cadence/Siemens)

AWS/Azure

GNU Make

Jenkins

Job description

Cisco Silicon One is seeking a technical contributor to drive the strategy and operation of critical infrastructure. You will bridge engineering requirements with IT and security capabilities, managing compute, storage, and networking resources to scale workloads and automate EDA workflows.

Role focuses on reducing development friction, ensuring reliability, and enabling the engineering organization to deliver with speed and productivity in a cutting-edge silicon environment.