Senior ASIC Design Engineer

The application window is expected to close on August 15, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This role requires being onsite in San Jose, CA 4+ days/week.

Meet the Team

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.

Your Impact

• Write micro-architecture specifications and participate in reviews.
• Implement Verilog RTL to meet timing, performance, and power requirements.
• Contribute to full chip integration and timing methodology/analysis.
• Develop and analyze functional coverage.
• Help define, evolve, and support our design methodology.
• Collaborate with the verification team to address design bugs and close code coverage.
• Work closely with the physical design team to close design timing and place-and-route issues.
• Triage, debug, and root cause simulation, software bring-up, and customer failures
• Perform diagnostic and post-silicon validation tests in the lab

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 7+ years of ASIC design experience or Master's Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 4+ years of ASIC design experience.
• Prior experience working with Verilog or System Verilog programming skills
• Experience with simulators/synthesis/static timing constraints and related tools (e.g., VCS, DC, PrimeTime)
• Experience with debugging and verification methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of Networking technologies and concepts
• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming)
• Experience with formal verification tools
• Experience with emulation

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.