Cisco Careers

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. With ~2,100 employees across 16 countries, we design the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers of various sizes, 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 designing, developing and testing some of the most complex ASICs being developed in the industry.

Who you'll work with 

You'll be joining our Cisco Silicon One team which is the center of Cisco’s SW and ASIC design, and will be part of our group driving our game changing next generation network devices - Cisco Silicon One™. Our unique team works in a startup atmosphere inside a stable and leading corporate.

We are transforming the industry and building a new internet for the 5G era, providing a unified, programmable silicon architecture that is the foundation of all Cisco's future routing products.

Our devices are designed to be universally adaptable across service providers and web-scale markets, designed for fixed and modular platforms. Our devices deliver high speed without sacrificing programmability, buffering, power efficiency, scale or feature flexibility.

Cisco Silicon One™ is a revolutionary, ground-breaking technology for our customers and end users for decades to come! The Internet now has a new faster, better, safer engine!

What You'll Do

• You'll be joining our Physical Design team at Cisco Silicon One group, which is responsible for the entire development process of RTL to GDS, leading development of high quality VLSI designs.
• Develop and own physical design implementation of multi-hierarchy low-power designs including physical-aware logic synthesis, design for testability, floorplan, place and route, static timing analysis, IR Drop, EM, and physical verification in advanced technology nodes.
• Resolve design and flow issues related to physical design, identify potential solutions, and drive execution.
• Deliver physical design of an end-to-end IP or integration of ASIC/SoC design 

Who You Are

You are a Design Engineer with 12+ years of related work experience with a broad mix of technologies 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent similar experience.
• 12+ years experience in physical design
• Understanding of RTL2GDSII flow and design tapeouts in 16nm/7nnm/5nm or below process technologies.
• Experience with low power implementation, power gating, multiple voltage rails, UPF/CPF knowledge.
• Experience working with EDA tools like DC/Genus, ICC2/Innovus, Primetime, Redhawk/Voltus or Calibre.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience running physical-aware logic synthesis and achieving optimal synthesis QoR on low power designs.
• Knowledge of static timing analysis and concepts, defining timing constraints and exceptions, corners/voltage definitions.
• Experience in Block-level and Full-chip floor-planning and power grid planning.
• Experience with custom or regular clock tree synthesis implementation at block level or top level, and clock power reduction techniques.
• Experience with Python, TCL, Perl programming.

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all. 

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can’t put us in a box!

But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it).

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! 

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