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This role will work onsite out of our San Jose, CA office.

Who We Are:

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. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world. 

 

Who You'll Work With:

You will be in the Silicon One development organization as an ASIC design verification engineer in San Jose, CA. You collaborate closely with verification engineers, designers, hardware and cross-functional teams to verify the ASIC in simulation, in emulation, and during ASIC bring-up. 

 

What You'll Do:

• Maintaining existing DV environments and enhancing them

• Construct test bench including scoreboard, agents, sequencers, and monitors for new blocks

• Write test plan, develop test cases, debug regression failures and drive to module verification closure

• Ensuring complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage

• Use AI tools to develop innovative methods and processes to improve quality of design verification.

 

 Minimum Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's with 8+ years or Master's degree with 6+ of relevant experience required; prior experience with System Verilog and UVM methodology

• Prior experience in verifying complex blocks, cluster, and/or top level for ASIC/SoC

• Prior experience building test benches from scratch, hands on experience with System Verilog constraints, structures and classes.

• Prior experience with functional coverage and constrained random DV environments.

• Scripting skills: Perl and/or Python scripting

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong domain experience in one or more protocols is a plus – PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, AHB/AXI, DDR, MMU.

• Experience with Veloce/HAPS is a plus

• Formal verification (iev/vc formal) knowledge is a plus

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

The starting salary range posted for this position is $183,800.00 to $263,600.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Ci