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The Italy Cisco Engineering HW design team has the design responsibility of Cisco Optical Networking products (www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/optical-networking/product-listing.html).

This responsibility covers the full product cycle from the initial specification to the delivery in field and includes also the sustaining and maintenance to provide the best customer experience with our products.

The selected candidate will work as member of HW design and development team in the Cisco Italy (Vimercate) design center, developing new products in the High-End Routing and Optical market segments.

This is a great opportunity to work with an experienced team that has broad exposure and influence in product development and performance for the world's leading provider of networking technology

Your Impact

We’re selecting an HW design engineer with university skills and professional experience in FPGA design including component selection and RTL coding/simulation. Key role of the FPGA design engineer is to work in a global environment to design, validate and bring to production complex and dense electronic blades with high-speed signals and complex ASICS / Optical Components.

The FPGA design engineer will interface with x-functional teams like HW PCBA design, Diagnostic and SW teams, Manufacturing and Product Engineering to develop high quality products.

Mandatory Experience during the university courses and professional experience on RTL code development (VERILOG/VHDL) for FPGA and complex programmable design.

In addition the FPGA design Engineer play a key role supporting the product during the entire life cycle providing code fixes to address issues impacting manufacturing / customers or supporting feature enhancement as well as possible redesign on newer FPGA chips for cost reduction activities.

• FPGA and SoC specification
• RTL code design (VERILOG / VHDL), Verification and simulations
• Database management with configuration control standard tools
• Lab feature testing and integration with SW
• Bug tracking and fixing

Job role requires onsite presence (Hybrid job but with presence on site 90% of the time) requiring presence in lab for HW design development and test

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer engineering or Electrical Engineering or Telecommunication or Physics with 1+year of experience in electronic laboratories of structured companies
• FPGA device selection, specification, pinout definition and support to schematic entry. RTL design, coding, simulation, and test in laboratory
• Synthesis, implementation, and timing analysis.
• SoC / CPLD / FPGA design with high level languages (RTL)

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of FPGA design and implementation processes, verification emulation/debugging methodologies and tools in the Telecom/networking area is a plus
• Coordination of FPGA development with Cisco INDIA and STO (Cisco security and trust) central teams or similar skill
• Knowledge of Xilinx, Altera and Microchip technologies
• Excellent teamwork attitude, able to work in multicultural teams, fluent written and oral English language
• Self-motivated, and highly autonomous with ability to manage multiple tasks
• Creative problem-solving skills and excellent troubleshooting/debugging skills
• Data communications or telecommunications and knowledge of major peripheral devices (Ram, Flash, UART, Ethernet Controller, Multiport Ram) is a plus

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