Senior Hardware Engineer - Cisco Systems, Inc.

San Jose, CA

About the Job

Who We Are

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. With ~2,100 employees across 16 countries, we design the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers of various sizes, the Public Sector, and Non-Profit Organizations across the world. Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) is the only unifying silicon architecture in the market that enables customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches all the way through web scale data centers and across service provider, enterprise networks, and data centers with a fully unified routing and switching portfolio. 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 in the industry.

Who you'll work with

UCS Servers / Hardware Engineering Servers

The Computing Systems Products Group, through The Unified Computing Systems creative architecture, helps to enable the fully unified data center. We architect the next generation unified computing systems, including compute, storage, network, visualization and management into a single platform. The team designs, implements, and delivers Computer industry leading computing system products. You will be part of the dynamic and passionate team working on exciting projects.

What you'll do In this highly visible role as a Lead Hardware Engineer:

Lead system design on computing system products
Prioritize and translate high level requirements into actionable milestones
You will drive product from concept to production
Participate in all stages of architecture, design, validation and support of computing system products
Coordinate and contribute to engineering deliverables including specifications and test plans
Hands-on engineering efforts for system bring up and validation in the lab
Interact, lead and address challenging technical problems with multi-functional teams
Act as technical liaison to key suppliers for the product and technical perspectives
Lead decision making to resolve technical tradeoff, operational and business considerations

Who you are

You are a Hardware Engineer with 8+ years of related work experience with a broad mix of technologies

Minimum Qualifications

Have a minimum of 8+ years of experience with BSEE, MSEE
Experience with Compute Servers, Storage Appliance, Network Switches and PCIe Adapters.
Demonstrated experience working with ODMs and overseas cross functional teams
Current and/or prior experience with Intel x86 products desired. AMD EPYC/ARM product experience is a plus.
Experience with design tools including Cadence Concept, and Allegro is a must.
Familiar with high-speed serial interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet and Fiber Channel
Familiar with memory and DDR protocols

Preferred Skills

Experience with high-speed (>=25G) system design, signal integrity issues, and power distribution techniques
Experience with lab bring up and design validation
Ability to collaborate with other disciplines, including software, BIOS, BMC, Diagnostics and QA
Demonstrated experience with shipping products.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Prior experience leading programs is highly desirable

Why Cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.

We connect everything – people, process, data and things – and we use those connections to change our world for the better.

We innovate everywhere - From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more – from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.

We benefit everyone - We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.

Colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Be you, with us!

#WeAreCisco

Source : Cisco Systems, Inc.