Meet the Team

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. 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.

Your Impact

As a Technical Leader, you will be responsible for overseeing the design and verification of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), ensuring they meet performance, power, and area specifications. This role involves coordinating cross-functional teams, guiding design methodologies, and addressing technical challenges throughout the development process to ensure successful tape-out and compliance with industry standards. Responsibilities include:

* Perform full chip DRC/LVS/ERC/ANT checks, review and debug the issues, provide solutions and ensure signoff clean results.

* Work with block and top-level implementation teams to understand physical aspects and feedback on necessary updates.

* Work closely with block and TOP level physical implementation, IP development teams and to resolve PV issues and address to proper owners.

* Deploy and improve physical verification flows and methodologies. Develop custom check as per need for verification robustness.

* Support block and TOP implementation teams to solve local PV issues.

Minimum Qualifications:

* BS/MS in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, with 10+ year minimum of hands-on experience in ASIC implementation and Physical verification

* Experience in deep submicron CMOS technologies.

* Experience with physical verification (DRC, LVS, ERC, ANT), debug, and solution.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Extensive experience working with block or full chip physical verification and/or owning Physical Verification CAD flow development and support.

* Experience on 5nm nodes and below.

* Experience working with semiconductor foundries on installation and maintenance of process design kits (PDKs) for SOC physical design teams.

* Experience working with Package and floorplan teams to define padring and bump-map design.

Why Cisco?

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data travelling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and size to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

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