Meet the Team:
The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. We craft the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers, the Public Sector, and Non-Profit Organizations across the world. Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) is the only unifying silicon architecture in the market that enables customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches all the way through web scale data centers and across service provider, enterprise networks, and data centers with a fully unified routing and switching portfolio. Come join us and take part in shaping Cisco's ground-breaking solutions by crafting, developing and testing some of the most sophisticated ASICs being developed in the industry. You will engage in dynamic collaboration with verification engineers, designers, and multi-functional teams, working together to ensure the successful verification of the ASIC throughout its lifecycle.
Your Impact:
You will contribute to developing Cisco’s progressive data center by crafting industry-leading sophisticated chips, with full exposure to all aspects of our systems and applications, including silicon, hardware, software, telemetry, and security. Specific responsibilities include:
Architect block, cluster and top-level DV environment infrastructure.
Develop DV infrastructure from scratch.
Maintain and improve existing DV environments.
Develop test plans and tests for qualifying design at block, cluster and higher-level environments with mix of constraint random and advised stimulus.
Ensure complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage.
Ensure RTL quality with qualifying the design with Gate Level Simulations on netlist.
Collaborate closely with designers, architects, and software teams to address and debug issues during post-silicon bring-up, ensuring seamless integration and efficient performance.
Support testing of design in emulation.
Lead all aspects of and manage the ASIC bring-up process.
Minimum Qualification:
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in EE, CE, or other related field.
7+ years of related ASIC design verification experience.
Proficient in ASIC verification using UVM/System Verilog.
Proficient in verifying sophisticated blocks, clusters and top level for ASIC.
Experience building test benches from scratch, hands on experience with System Verilog constraints, structures and classes.
Preferred Qualifications:
Scripting experience with Perl and/or Python.
Experience with data path verification, performance tests
Experience with Veloce/Palladium/Zebu/HAPS.
Formal verification (iev/vc formal) knowledge.
Demonstrated ability on one or more protocols (PCIe, Ethernet, RDMA, TCP).
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 7+ years of ASIC design verification experience.
- Proficient in ASIC verification using UVM/SystemVerilog.
- Experience verifying sophisticated blocks, clusters, and top-level ASICs.
- Experience building test benches from scratch and hands-on SystemVerilog constraints, structures, and classes.
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
