Cisco’s ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) Engineering team is at the heart of our networking innovation. They are responsible for the end-to-end design, development, and verification of high-performance, custom silicon that powers the world’s most critical network infrastructure.
By engineering bespoke chips, the team enables unparalleled throughput, energy efficiency, and advanced security features, ensuring our routers, switches, and optical platforms can handle the massive data demands of today’s digital landscape. Working at the intersection of hardware architecture and software integration, this team is essential to maintaining Cisco’s leadership in networking technology, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in silicon design to solve complex connectivity challenges.
Your Impact:Define, design and verify ASIC and ASIC subsystems to be deployed in a range of Cisco platforms. Contribute to a multi-disciplined engineering team to meet the power, performance, and area goals for products. Design, document, and develop ASIC subsystems for release in high volume and quality. Help define the process, methods, and tools for design and implementation of complex developments.
What You’ll Do:
• Oversees the definition, architecture and design of high performance ASICs
• Oversees all applications and code including methodology of reusable code
• Oversees code creation and determines methodology behind coding
• Consults for architecture and design decisions for complex areas
• Drives design solutions across the business
• Creates guidelines and standards
• Creates innovative verification strategies
• Oversees system level verification using test benches
• Ensures culture of code reviews and postmortems
• Architects and designs analog/mixed-signal circuits
• Reviews complex IC designs and makes recommendations for improvements
• Directs the mixed-signal team to define requirements, influences packaging and hardware team to ensure specifications are met
• Oversees all physical design functions bringing technical expertise to highly complex scenarios
• Interfaces with vendors and design leads on complex issues
• Drives different technology design rules to develop innovative packages
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree with 12 years of related experience, Master's degree with 8 years of related experience, or PhD with 5 years of related experience
Excellent project management skills (PMP or equivalent experience).
Preferred Qualifications:
PMP or equivalent certifications
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 with 12 years related experience, Master's with 8 years, or PhD with 5 years
- Excellent project management skills (PMP or equivalent experience/certification)
- Proven ASIC design and verification experience (architecture, subsystem design)
- Analog and mixed-signal circuit architecture and design experience
- System-level verification experience using testbenches and verification strategy creation
- Physical design and packaging interaction experience for complex ICs
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving design solutions across the business
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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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