ASIC Design Engineer, Senior Technical Leader

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  • Location:
    San Jose, California, US
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Hardware
  • Compensation Range
    184000 USD - 266000 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Networking
  • Job Id
    1434559
The application window is expected to close on: March 21, 2025. 
 
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.  
 
This role requires being onsite in San Jose, CA 4+ days/week.

Meet the Team
Join the Cisco Silicon One team in developing a unified silicon architecture for web scale and service provider networks. Cisco’s silicon team provides a unique experience for ASIC engineers by combining the resources offered by a large multi-geography silicon organization and a large campus (with onsite gym, healthcare, and café, social interest groups, and philanthropy), with the startup culture and breadth of growth opportunities that working in a smaller ASIC team can provide. 

You will work with exceptional talent with vast ASIC design and development expertise. With Cisco being a systems company, you will also have an opportunity to work with other ASIC teams in the journey of taking it from concept to first customer shipments.
 
Your Impact
You are a diligent Design/SDC Engineer with strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of timing constraints, including clock groups, exceptions, and clock exclusivity. Proficient in industry-standard SDC/STA tools and scripting for automation, you excel at identifying and resolving timing issues across all design levels. You will collaborate with Front-end and Back-end teams to understand chip architecture and guide them in refining design and timing constraints for seamless physical design closure. As part of this team, you’ll contribute to developing next-generation networking chips. 
 
Responsibilities include: 
  • Being a member of design team who oversees fullchip SDCs and works with physical design and DFT teams to close fullchip timing in multiple timing modes.
  • Option to also do block level RTL design or block or top-level IP integration.
  • Helping develop efficient methodology to promote block level SDCs to fullchip, and to bring fullchip SDC changes back to block level.
  • Helping develop and apply methodology to ensure correctness and quality of SDCs as early as possible in design cycle.
  • Reviewing block level SDCs and clocking diagrams and mentor other RTL design owners on SDC development.
  • Leading the fullchip clocking design including diagrams and related documentation.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 12+ years of ASIC or related experience or Master’s Degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering with 8+ years of ASIC or related experience.
  • Experience with microarchitecture and RTL implementation.
  • Experience with digital design concepts (eg. clocking and async boundaries).
  • Experience with block/full chip SDC development in functional and test modes.
  • Experience with synthesis tools (eg. Synopsys DC/DCG/FC) and Verilog/System Verilog programming.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in Static Timing Analysis. 
  • Experience with constraint analyzer tools such as Fishtail/TCM (Timing Constraint Manager from Synopsys) and CCD (Conformal Constraint Designer from Cadence).
  • Experience with Spyglass CDC and glitch analysis.
  • Experience with STA tools such as PrimeTime/Tempus.
  • Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or TCL.
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