What are the responsibilities and job description for the ASIC Design Verification Engineer position at Cisco Systems, Inc.?
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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. 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.
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 and develop block, cluster, and top-level DV infrastructure from scratch, including maintaining and enhancing existing environments.
- Create and execute test plans for design qualification at various levels, using a mix of constraint random and directed stimulus.
- Ensure comprehensive verification coverage through code and functional coverage implementation and review.
- Qualify RTL design quality with Gate Level Simulations and support emulation testing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to debug and optimize designs during post-silicon bring-up and manage the ASIC bring-up process.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in EE, CE, or other related field.
- 5 years of related ASIC design verification experience.
- Proficient in ASIC verification using UVM/System Verilog.
- Proficient in verifying complex blocks, clusters and top level for ASIC.
- Experience building test benches from scratch, hands on experience with System Verilog constraints, structures and classes.
- Scripting experience with Perl and/or Python.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's Degree in EE or CE.
- 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).
Why Cisco?
#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.
Our passion is connection-we celebrate our employees' diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.
We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer-80 hours each year-allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!
Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us!
