ASIC Design Verfication Engineer II

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Applications are accepted until further notice.

The ASIC Group works closely with other development teams within Cisco, including marketing, system hardware, software, product engineering, and manufacturing. Through this collaboration, members of our group play a major role in defining, developing and bringing new products to market across Cisco's product line. Open‑minded, driven, diverse and deeply creative people at Cisco craft the hardware that makes the internet work.

Bring your knowledge of computers and networking and take it to a new level in any one of the following product categories including: cloud, social, mobile/wireless, video, VoIP, collaboration, web, Internet of Things, routing, switching, IPv6, data center, HPC, Tele Presence and many more. Your work will affect billions globally.

Join our award‑winning ASIC team, where you’ll collaborate with top industry talent to design and deliver ground‑breaking communications and network processing silicon. You’ll contribute to system and processor architecture, high‑speed logic design and verification, digital signal processing, memory and custom library development, physical design, DFT, signal integrity, and advanced packaging. Work with the latest VLSI techniques and deep sub‑micron technologies, owning projects from concept to in‑house physical implementation.

• Completion within the past 3 years, or current enrollment with expected completion within 12 months, Bachelors + 2 years of relevant experience or Masters + 0 years of relevant experience.
• Familiarity with hardware description languages (HDLs), such as Verilog or VHDL.
• Experience with RTL design and simulation tools (e.g., Synopsys, Cadence, Mentor Graphics).
• Exposure to scripting languages (e.g., Python, Perl, TCL) for automation.
• Familiarity with ASIC/SoC design flow including synthesis, place & route, and timing closure.

• Experience with ASIC verification methodologies (e.g., UVM, System Verilog).
• Understanding of physical design and DFT (Design for Test) principles.
• Familiarity with Linux‑based development environments.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and problem‑solve sophisticated engineering challenges.
• Excellent organizational, teamwork, and communication skills.