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Meet the Team

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. 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.

Your Impact

You are a detail-oriented Test Timing Engineer with strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of timing constraints, such as clock groups, various exceptions, clock exclusivity. You will collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, communicate complex timing data clearly, and are always focused on driving designs to closure. Responsibilities will include:

• Developing timing constraints at block, sub-chip, and full-chip levels in test modes, performing quality checks such as duplicated constraints, promotion/demotion between block and top level SDCs.
• Check timing for unconstrained endpoints, no clock, etc.
• Your role may include SDC validation, CDC delay check, and SDC flow development.
• STA runs, more specifically at scan modes along with advising the Physical Design team on best practices.
• Developing methodologies, guidelines, and checklists to streamline STA work, resolve design and flow issues, and drive execution to ensure progress and accuracy.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering (or other equivalent field) with 8+ years of related work experience.
• Experience with block/full chip SDC development in test modes (scan shift, scan capture, atpg capture modes).
• Expertise in Static Timing Analysis and prior working experience with STA tools like PrimeTime/Tempus.
• Programming skills in at least 2 or more of the following languages: Perl, TCL, Python, Makefile, or other relative scripting languages.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in electrical or computer engineering (or other equivalent field) with 6+ years of related work experience.
• Thorough understanding of noise, cross talk, OCV, Sigma effects and Liberty file formats including standard cells/memory/IO/IP modeling and its usage in the ASIC flow.
• Background in debugging and analyzing timing constraints, timing closure of DFT modes such as scan shift/capture and BIST.
• Prior working experience with SDC debugging & STA tools: Synopsys GCA/TCM/Primetime, Cadence CCD/Tempus.
• Strong communication skills and team player.

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all. We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. 

We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can’t put us in a box! But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it). 

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. 

Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward. So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

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