Senior Hardware Engineer (Datacenter Switch)

Meet the Team The Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms—like Silicon One—are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world. Your Impact Hardware Engineer is a key member of the Cisco Purpose Built Switch hardware team.

• Define and design the next generation Hyperscaler Switch hardware based on Silicon One and/or merchant ASIC, as well as CPU subsystem.
• Responsible for system and board level specification, schematic capture, FPGA design, ASIC/System level bring up and troubleshooting.
• The individual is expected to bring up the system to work with multiple groups including ASIC, DFT, Signal Integrity, software, Diagnostics and Manufacturing team to resolve any design issues.
• Debug and troubleshoot in labs using scopes and analyzers
• Act as technical liaison with major component Suppliers for the product

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering or Telecommunications and 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree with 6+ years, or PhDwith 3+ years of industrial experience
• Prior experience with common HW technology, including power, clock, memory, CPU, and variety of system interfaces.
• Previous experience with complex high-speed board design and board bring-up.
• Prior experience with schematics/layout, Hardware bring-up, trouble-shooting, system level testing.
• Experience with working with Software team on system bring-up and porting, devices configuration (registers level).

Preferred Qualifications

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