Technical Leader ASIC Design - Prototyping

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Meet the Team

Join our dynamic front-end design team at Cisco Silicon One, where innovation meets cutting-edge technology! As part of the heart of silicon development at Cisco, you'll engage in every facet of chip design, from architecture to validation, using the latest silicon technologies to create groundbreaking devices. Cisco Silicon One is the only unified silicon architecture that empowers customers to deploy top-tier silicon across diverse applications, from top-of-rack switches to expansive data centers. Be a part of shaping Cisco's revolutionary solutions by designing and testing advanced ASICs that integrate networking, compute, and storage into a single system. With tightly integrated hardware and software solutions, you'll gain exposure to all aspects of our systems, leveraging the latest technology. We're seeking a talented ASIC engineer with a focus on FPGA Prototyping and a proven track record in high-performance products, ready to make a significant impact in the industry. Join us and push the boundaries of what's possible!

Your Impact

As a diligent FPGA Prototyping Engineer with exceptional analytical skills, you excel in utilizing industry-standard FPGA prototyping tools and have a proven ability to map multi-million gate SoCs to FPGAs. You will collaborate closely with Design, DV, and Software teams to understand chip architecture and effectively prototype the SoC on the FPGA platform. Your contributions will be integral to the development of next-generation networking chips.

Responsibilities include:

• Be part of the development organization as an ASIC Engineering Technical Leader with primary focus on FPGA Prototyping
• Map multi-million gate SoC designs onto prototyping platforms, creating design partitions, FPGA builds, and testbenches to simulate FPGA components
• Establish prototyping systems in the lab and contribute to defining, evolving, and supporting our prototyping methodology
• Option to engage in block-level RTL design or block or top-level IP integration
• Collaborate with Software, Design, and Verification teams to validate the functional and performance objectives of the SoC

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, accompanied by a minimum of 10 years of experience in ASIC or a related field, or a Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with at least 8 years of experience in ASIC or a related discipline
• A comprehensive understanding of FPGA design, with proven expertise in partitioning multi-million gate designs across multiple FPGAs.
• Proficiency in synthesis, place, and route flows for FPGAs.
• An in-depth knowledge of digital design concepts, including Clock Domain Crossing (CDC), Reset Domain Crossing (RDC)
• Demonstrated experience in RTL coding using Verilog/System Verilog and integration of third-party IPs.
• A meticulous and methodical approach to triaging, debugging, and identifying root causes of issues throughout various phases of FPGA development
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in prototyping Networking System-on-Chips (SoCs) on HAPS or equivalent prototyping platforms
• A strong understanding of PCIE, DDR, Ethernet, and Networking Protocols
• Proficiency in prototyping ARM or RISCV CPUs
• Exceptional scripting skills using languages such as TCL, Python, or Perl

Why Cisco?

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. Simply put - we power the future.

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.