Senior Hardware Engineer (Hardware Board Designer)

As a hardware board designer, you will be involved in hardware design and development of our next generation of Service/Routing products and support our current generation of products as well.

• Participate and contribute to the system hardware design
• Contribute to hardware specification, design, development and test
• Drive product from concept to production
• Work under department strategy and direction
• Independently resolves and develops approach to solutions
• Work closely with software, diagnostics, manufacturing, marketing, EDVT and MDVT test teams throughout the development process

The Enterprise Routing organization designs and develops Cisco's Edge and Access routing products. We architect the next generation of routing technology using both internally developed and commercially available silicon. The team designs, implements, and delivers industry leading routing products. You will be part of the dynamic and passionate team working on innovative projects.

Our Minimum Requirements for this role:

• BSEE or MSEE with 6+ years of experience in hardware board design and development
• A consistent track record of taking a design from concept to production
• Experience in designing with x86 and/or ARM processors
• Experience in designing with DDR4/DDR5 memory, PCIe gen1/gen2, SATA, USB
• Extensive experience in designing Ethernet (10/100/1000Mbps, 10GE, 25GE, 40GE, 100GE) and serial interfaces like I2C, SPI, UART, RS232, etc
• Experience in high-speed board design/signal integrity and power distribution is critical
• Experience in using high-speed scopes and logic analyzers
• Experience in schematic capture tools like Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL (Concept HDL)
• Experience designing Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGAs or CPLDs using Verilog
• Self-motivation, teamwork and strong communication skills are critical
• Experience in using circuit simulation tools like HyperLynx, SPICE is a plus

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