The application window is expected to close on: 11/30/2026 Meet the Team
The Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms—like Silicon One—are shaping the technology industry.
The High-End Routing hardware team within CHG develops the groundbreaking routers deployed in Service Providers and Data Centers worldwide. We are inventors in our field, using powerful technologies to design a new class of innovative routers supporting the Internet for the Future. Join us and participate in this exciting journey towards the future of connectivity!
Your Impact
You will work among engineers as a direct contributor, designing and operating our growing worldwide network infrastructure. Your responsibilities will span from hardware definition to design, and from qualification to final product release to our customers.
Designing the hardware for the Cisco 8000 series routers to deliver the best quality and best power efficiency using groundbreaking Serdes technology at the highest bit rates possible.
Drive hardware product life cycle development including architecture, detailed design, bring up, debug, Hardware Qualification, Release to Manufacturing, sustaining support and field failure support
Use Cadence/Allegro to develop and collect schematics
Guide layout and routing phase of the design
Write hardware specs, develop test plans, bring up hardware with ASIC teams
Debug issues the lab using analyzers, scopes
Collaborate multi-functionally with architects, developers, and vendors within Cisco throughout the product development life cycle, solving sophisticated problems along the way.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 6+ years of experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering + 3 years in hardware system level development
Experience with high speed design for Ethernet or PCIe
Experience collaborating with peer teams such as: Manufacturing, Software, Mechanical, or Signal Integrity
Experience in Board Design using industry standard tools such as Concept, Allegro, or equivalent tools
Experience with lab bring up and hardware design validation of products
Preferred Qualifications
Experience writing hardware functional specifications
Experience with High-Speed Network Interfaces (10G/25G/100G)
Experience with control interfaces such as PCIe, MDIO, SPI, I2C
Experience designing systems with DDR4/DDR5 DIMMs
Experience with tackling signal integrity issues and board mounted power design and distribution techniques
Experience working with programmable devices such as FPGAs, CPLD
Prior experience with shipping products
Pourquoi Cisco?
Chez Cisco, nous révolutionnons la façon dont les données et les infrastructures se connectent et protègent les entreprises à l’ère de l’intelligence artificielle et au-delà. Nous innovons sans crainte de manquer quelque chose depuis 40 ans pour créer des solutions qui optimisent la collaboration entre les humains et la technologie dans les mondes physiques et numériques. Ces solutions offrent aux clients une sécurité, une visibilité et des analyses inégalées sur l’ensemble de l’empreinte numérique.
Alimentés par la profondeur et l’étendue de notre technologie, nous expérimenterons et créons des solutions significatives. Ajoutez à cela notre réseau mondial de personnes fonceuses et d’experts, et vous verrez que les possibilités de grandir et de bâtir sont illimitées. Nous travaillons en équipe, en collaborant avec empathie pour réaliser de très grandes choses à l'échelle mondiale. Parce que nos solutions sont partout, notre impact est partout.
Nous sommes Cisco, et notre puissance commence avec vous.
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