ASIC Engineer

Cisco•San Jose, CA

11d

About The Position

Join the Cisco Silicon One team in developing a unified silicon architecture for web-scale and service provider networks. Cisco's silicon team provides an outstanding, unique experience for ASIC engineers by combining the resources offered by a sizable multi-geography silicon organization and a large campus (with an on-site gym, healthcare, café, social interest groups, and philanthropy) with the startup culture and breadth of growth opportunities that working in a smaller ASIC team can provide. As an ASIC Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing Cisco’s revolutionary data center solutions. You’ll architect and develop DV infrastructure, create and execute comprehensive test plans, and ensure robust verification and coverage for complex chips. You will also design RTL as per the architecture specs. Your collaboration with architects, and software teams will help guarantee seamless integration and optimal performance of Cisco’s hardware platforms. You will:

Requirements

Bachelors degree and 5+ years of ASIC experience, or Masters degree and 3+ years of ASIC experience, or PhD and 0+ years of related experience
Experience in System Verilog and UVM methodology
Hands-on experience building reusable and scalable test benches from scratch
Proficient in interactive and waveform debug skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with RTL Design
Familiarity with ASIC/SoC design flow including synthesis, place & route, and timing closure
Experience with scripting using Perl, TCL and/or Python
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Collaborative and team-focused with the commitment to learn and grow
Understanding of networking and packet forwarding architectures highly desirable
Knowledge of formal verification tools (e.g., Jasper or VC Formal)

Responsibilities

Writing testplans
Specification and test plan reviews
Implementing RTL designs
Building test cases, scripts, reference models and testbenches
Running and debugging regressions
Generating and analyzing code coverage
Triage, debug, and root cause simulation, software bring-up, and customer failures
Perform diagnostic and post silicon validation tests in the lab

Benefits

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.