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Your Impact:We are seeking an
ASIC Engineer, Post-Silicon Electrical Validation with expertise in lab-intensive
hardware validation to
lead testing and debug of high-performance networking silicon. This role is heavily focused on hands-on work in silicon validation labs, driving early-silicon bring-up, performing advanced electrical and protocol measurements, and owning end-to-end root-cause analysis of silicon, package, and board-level issues. The position offers significant technical ownership, cross-functional influence, and exposure to complex networking ASICs and high-speed interfaces.
Key Responsibilities:- Lead hands-on post-silicon electrical validation in lab environments for networking ASICs and evaluation platforms
- Own early-silicon bring-up activities from first power-on through feature enablement
- Define, execute, and refine detailed hardware validation plans covering functionality characterization, performance, and reliability
- Drive validation readiness, lab infrastructure setup, and test coverage strategy
- Lead power-on sequencing, reset strategy validation, clock bring-up, and strap configuration
- Perform in-depth voltage, current, power integrity (PDN), and signal integrity analysis
- Capture, analyze, and interpret waveforms, eye diagrams, jitter, BER, PDN measurements, power supply stability and noise.
- Independently isolate and root-cause silicon, package, board, or signal integrity issues
- Lead validation of Ethernet MAC/PHY and high-speed interfaces such as PCIe and SerDes
- Oversee packet-level validation using traffic generators and protocol analyzers
- Validate system-level behavior under real-world networking workloads
- Advanced-level operation of oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, VNAs, protocol analyzers, BERTs, and multimeters
- Develop and maintain lab automation using scripts and frameworks (e.g., Python)
- Plan and execute thermal testing using chambers and chillers across operating ranges
Minimum Qualifications:- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field with 8 + years of experience in post-silicon electrical validation, hardware bring-up and lab-based silicon debug
- Experience in electronics, digital logic, signal integrity, and power integrity
- Experience in high-speed measurement techniques (eye diagrams, BER, jitter, compliance testing)
- Experience with interfaces such as DDR5, USB 3.x, SGMII, PCIe Gen3, USB2.0, eMMC, SPI, MDIO, I2C, and UART
- Experience with Reading and Reviewing schematics and layout files for complex boards
Preferred Qualifications:- Hands-on experience with silicon bring-up and post-silicon validation labs
- Experience validating Ethernet, PCIe, and SerDes interfaces
- Scripting skills for lab automation and data analysis (Python preferred)
- Understanding of networking fundamentals and packet-based systems
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:The starting salary range posted for this position is $165,000.00 to $241,400.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
- .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
- 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
- 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
- Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$165,000.00 - $277,600.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$146,700.00 - $247,000.00
* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
