Silicon Validation Engineer

The application window is expected to close on: 11/29/2026

The Silicon One team creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly.

Join us to power the future of the digital world.

• Develop and maintain ASIC APIs and SDKs in C and C++, delivering clean, scalable updates that support emulation, bring-up, and ongoing feature work.

• Own tasks that extend verification and test capability, writing Python and TCL scripts that exercise ASIC features and measure performance in the emulation environment.

• Verify ASIC functionality and performance through structured emulation tests, debugging failures and driving issues to resolution with design and software partners.

• Contribute to silicon validation once silicon arrives, using existing scripts and lab automation, including traffic-generation tools such as Spirent and IXIA, to confirm feature behavior and performance.

• Partner across design, software, and validation teams to keep emulation environments, test plans, and silicon milestones aligned through each stage of the program.

• Bachelors + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience.

• Prior experience with software design skills using C or C++

• Prior experience with writing drivers or SDK for ASICS

• Prior experience with scripting languages such as Pythonor TCL

• Prior experience working with Emulator or ASIC bring up environments

• Prior experience in overall architecture of software systems:
  Linux kernel drivers (PCIE or I2C)

• Prior experience with troubleshooting or debugging skills
• Prior experience with test equipment automation like IXIA or Spirent

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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