Senior Hardware Engineer - Post-Silicon Validation & ASIC

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 241,400; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose is seeking a versatile Senior Hardware Engineer to join the CHG team.

Your involvement across multiple stages of the product lifecycle offers a unique opportunity to engage with a broad range of technical fields. In this highly visible role, you will help ensure our products perform reliably, from pre-silicon validation and post-silicon bring-up through manufacturing support and ongoing quality improvements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 6+ years of relevant experience; or Master's with 3+ years; or PhD with 1+ year.
• Electrical post-silicon validation (Vmin, leakage, PVT characterization, …)
• SoC failure analysis, Power and signal integrity, High speed mixed-signal design, DFT, SRAM design and/or integration.

Responsibilities

• Lead and participate in failure analysis efforts, determining contributing factors and corrective actions.
• Lead activities aiming at improving product performance, yield, and reliability.
• Define, and refine post silicon validation plans covering functionality, performance characterization, and reliability.
• Capture, analyze, and interpret device performance, waveforms, eye diagrams, jitter, BER, PDN measurements, power supply stability and noise.
• Validate system-level behavior under real-world networking workloads.
• Contribute to the chip screening test and observability software library (Python, C++).

Skills

Post-silicon validation

SoC failure analysis

Power integrity

Signal integrity

High-speed design

DFT

SRAM design

Python

C++

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related

Master's degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related

PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering or related

Tools

Oscilloscopes

VNA

BERT

Logic analyzers

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. in San Jose is seeking a versatile Senior Hardware Engineer to join the CHG team.

Your involvement across multiple stages of the product lifecycle offers a unique opportunity to engage with a broad range of technical fields. In this highly visible role, you will help ensure our products perform reliably, from pre-silicon validation and post-silicon bring-up through manufacturing support and ongoing quality improvements.