Senior ASIC Validation Engineer - Post-Silicon Software

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Paid parental leave

Generous vacation and sick time

Job summary

Cisco Silicon One in San Jose is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to drive post-silicon validation and reliability across the product lifecycle. You will work with verification engineers, designers, and cross-functional teams to ensure silicon quality from pre- to post-silicon bring-up and manufacturing support.

The role focuses on high-speed design, power integrity, and FW integration, with collaboration across teams and hands-on analysis. This is a full-time role based in San Jose, CA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 6+ years of experience, or Master's with 3+ years, or PhD with 1+ year.
• Experience with electrical post-silicon validation (Vmin, leakage, PVT), SoC failure analysis, Power and signal integrity, high-speed mixed-signal design, DFT, SRAM design, Firmware development and/or integration.
• Software development experience with Python, C++ or similar language.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in failure analysis efforts and corrective actions.
• Improve product performance, yield, and reliability.
• Define and refine post-silicon validation plans for functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Analyze device performance, waveforms, eye diagrams, jitter, BER, PDN, and power stability.
• Validate system-level behavior with built-in tests and real-world workloads.
• Contribute to the chip screening test and observability software library (Python, C++).

Skills

Python

C++

DFT

Firmware development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field

PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field

Tools

Oscilloscopes

VNA

Logic analyzers

Job description

Cisco Silicon One in San Jose is seeking a Senior Hardware Engineer to drive post-silicon validation and reliability across the product lifecycle. You will work with verification engineers, designers, and cross-functional teams to ensure silicon quality from pre- to post-silicon bring-up and manufacturing support.

The role focuses on high-speed design, power integrity, and FW integration, with collaboration across teams and hands-on analysis. This is a full-time role based in San Jose, CA.