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Senior Hardware Engineer - SoC Electrical Failure Analysis; Hybrid

Job in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95112, USA
Listing for: Cisco
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-24
Job specializations:
  • Engineering
    Hardware Engineer, Electronics Engineer, Systems Engineer, Electrical Engineering
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Senior Hardware Engineer - SoC Electrical Failure Analysis (Hybrid)

Senior Hardware Engineer

We are seeking a versatile Senior Hardware Engineer to join the team. Your involvement across multiple stages of the product lifecycle offers a unique opportunity to engage with a broad range of technical fields. In this highly visible role, you will play a key part in ensuring our products perform reliably, from pre-silicon validation and post-silicon bring-up through manufacturing support, field issue resolution, and ongoing quality and reliability improvements.

  • Lead and participate in failure analysis efforts, determining contributing factors and corrective actions

  • Lead activities aiming at improving product performance, yield, and reliability

  • Define, and refine post silicon validation plans covering functionality, performance characterization, and reliability

  • Capture, analyze, and interpret device performance, waveforms, eye diagrams, jitter, BER, PDN measurements, power supply stability and noise.

  • Validate system-level behavior under real-world networking workloads

  • Contribute to the chip screening test and observability software library (Python, C++)

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of relevant experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field and 1+ years of relevant related work experience.

  • Relevant experience:
    Electrical post-silicon validation (Vmin, leakage, PVT characterization, …), SoC failure analysis, Power and signal integrity, High speed mixed-signal design, DFT, SRAM design and/or integration.

  • Experience in driving SoC failure analysis efforts.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in bringing up complex SoC

  • Experience with electrical diagnostics and measurement equipment (Oscilloscopes, VNA, BERT, logic analyzers...)

  • Experience in high-speed physical interfaces

  • Experience in design for test (DFT)

  • Experience in physical and/or logic design

  • Experience in memory design and MBIST

  • Experience with schematics and layout files for sophisticated electrical systems

  • Software development experience with Python, C++ or similar language

  • Understanding of networking fundamentals and protocols

Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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