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# Hardware Systems Engineering Technical Leader

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Milpitas, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $171,600.0 - $245,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Debugging, Ethernet, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Hardware Design, Network Architecture, Network Interface, PCI Express, Signal Integrity, CPLD, Application Specific Integrated Circuits, Cisco
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.techcareers.com/job.asp?id=3417353502&tx=HT7266TYT&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

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.


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