Hardware System Engineer

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronic or Computer Engineering with at least seven years of experience; a master’s degree in Electronic or Computer Engineering with at least four years of experience; or a PhD with at least one year of system-level development experience, preferably in the server, computer, or networking industry.
• Experience with product lab bring-up and design validation.
• Experience with high-speed networks of 10G or higher.
• Hands-on board-design experience using Cadence Concept, Allegro, or a similar design tool.
• Experience with high-speed-design signal-integrity issues, power-distribution techniques, and modern processors.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience designing hardware systems based on x86 and ARM architectures.
• Experience with GPU architecture.
• Experience with FPGA design, coding, and simulations.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance

The Common Hardware Group develops innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core switching products for organizations globally. The group’s innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms-including Silicon One-are shaping the technology industry.

CHG is a distributed team of creative experts who bring diverse backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help one another grow. Because the team owns the full product-development lifecycle-from design and qualification through production-it can think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. This is an opportunity to help power the future of the digital world.

Your impact:

• Lead system design for computing system products.
• Bring up systems and implement engineering validation in the lab.
• Drive products from concept through production.
• Participate in technical discussions with cross-functional teams.
• Address challenging technical problems and issues.