Emulation Engineer, Technical Leader

Meet The Team

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

You will work with Cisco’s best‑in‑class switching solution team. Our team is responsible for driving integration of the Nexus systems and ACI with software, including Open Stack, Docker, and Open vSwitch, to help our customers build multi‑tenant clouds.

• Develop innovative emulation environments that will be used to evaluate the performance and functionality of multi‑terabit systems.
• Develop emulation infrastructure using C/C++ and TCL.
• As a team member, work closely with the design, DV, power, and post‑silicon diagnostic teams.
• Assist with test plan design, test implementation, and debugging during the pre‑silicon emulation process.
• Develop tests to generate complex traffic and performance scenarios to catch potential post‑silicon issues during the Pre‑Silicon phase.
• Work with leading emulation vendors to solve issues.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in EE (Electrical & Electronics) or CE (Computer Engineering) with 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Prior emulation experience on platforms such as Palladium, Veloce, or Zebu as well as experience with compilation, debug, performance testing.
• Prior experience with RTL development for emulation prototypes.
• Prior experience with C/C++ and TCL infrastructure development.
• Prior experience with system debug tools like gdb, waveform debuggers.

• Experience with scripting programs (e.g., Python, Perl or similar).
• Prior experience with UVM and System Verilog.
• Post‑Silicon functional validation or debugging experience is a plus.
• Experience with protocols such as PCIE, I2C, Ethernet packet headers, Ethernet protocol is preferred.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $ to $ and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job‑related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below.

For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long‑term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non‑exempt employees.
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year‑end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco.
• Non‑exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full‑time employees.
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use…