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, the Public Sector, and Non-Profit Organizations across the world. Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) 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 provider, 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.
Who You'll Work With
You will engage in dynamic collaboration with verification engineers, designers, and cross-functional teams, working together to ensure the successful verification of the ASIC throughout its lifecycle.
Your Impact
You will contribute to developing Cisco’s revolutionary data center solutions by designing industry-leading complex chips, with full exposure to all aspects of our systems and applications, including silicon, hardware, software, telemetry, and security. Specific responsibilities include:
Architect block, cluster and top-level DV environment infrastructure.
Develop DV infrastructure from scratch for block and cluster level environments.
Maintain and enhance existing DV environments.
Develop test plans and tests for qualifying design at block, and cluster level environments with mix of constraint random and directed stimulus.
Ensure complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage.
Ensure RTL quality with qualifying the design with Gate Level Simulations on netlist.
Collaborate closely with designers, architects, and software teams to address and debug issues during post-silicon bring-up, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.
Support testing of design in emulation.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in EE, CE, or other related fi eld.
5+ years of related ASIC design verification experience.
Proficient in ASIC verification using UVM/System Verilog.
Proficient in verifying complex blocks and/or clusters for ASIC.
Experience building test benches from scratch, hands on experience with SystemVerilog constraints, structures and classes.
Scripting experience with Perl and/or Python.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s Degree in EE or CE with 3+ years of related work experience.
Experience with Forwarding logic/Parsers/P4.
Experience with Veloce/Palladium/Zebu/HAPS.
Formal verification (iev/vc formal) knowledge.
Domain experience on one or more protocols (PCIe, Ethernet, RDMA, TCP).
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