Senior FPGA Engineer - Industrial IoT & Timing (Hybrid)

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Milpitas (CA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in Milpitas, CA is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join the IoT team within the Networking Hardware Engineering group.

You will translate requirements into FPGA architectures and own design from RTL to release. You will collaborate across hardware, embedded software, and verification teams, contributing to verification, bring-up, and production releases, while helping refine workflows and reusable designs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years FPGA development with a Bachelor’s or 4+ years with a Master’s degree.
• Experience delivering FPGA functionality across the product lifecycle.
• Verilog or SystemVerilog for synthesizable RTL and related design fundamentals.
• Experience with FPGA toolchains for simulation, synthesis, place&route, timing.
• Hardware bring-up and debugging across FPGA, embedded software, and board hardware.

Responsibilities

• Translate system and product requirements into FPGA architectures, detailed designs, and hardware/software interfaces.
• Develop and maintain RTL for packet processing, network redundancy, precision timing, and platform control functions.
• Define verification plans and develop simulations that validate functionality, corner cases, and recovery behavior.
• Perform synthesis, implementation, timing analysis, and timing closure while balancing performance and resource utilization.
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers on interface definitions, initialization sequences, diagnostics, and system integration.
• Support hardware bring-up and troubleshoot issues using simulation waveforms, packet captures, register traces, and laboratory tools.
• Investigate root causes, implement corrective changes, and validate fixes across affected platforms.
• Deliver reproducible FPGA builds, validated release images, and clear design and release documentation.
• Participate in technical reviews, mentor teammates, and improve reusable designs, verification coverage, and development workflows.

Skills

FPGA development

RTL design

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Digital design fundamentals

Clock domain crossing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

FPGA toolchains

Hardware bring-up tooling

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. in Milpitas, CA is seeking a Senior FPGA Engineer to join the IoT team within the Networking Hardware Engineering group.

You will translate requirements into FPGA architectures and own design from RTL to release. You will collaborate across hardware, embedded software, and verification teams, contributing to verification, bring-up, and production releases, while helping refine workflows and reusable designs.