Cisco

Hardware Engineer - FPGA

Cisco$152K — $221K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or related field with 7+ years experience, or Master's with 4+ years
  • FPGA or ASIC development experience from specification to production
  • Proficiency in Verilog/System Verilog RTL coding
  • Familiarity with industry-leading FPGA devices and tools
  • Ability to address system-level issues and constraints

Responsibilities

  • Translate networking system requirements into functional blocks for FPGA implementation
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define development requirements
  • Participate in validation and manufacturing release processes
  • Design control path FPGAs for High-End Routing team
  • Interface with Diagnostics, Software, Board design, Manufacturing, and Hardware Qualification teams
  • Lead meetings, drive issues to resolution, and ensure clear communication with stakeholders
  • Utilize strong analytical skills to manage hardware-software complexity

Benefits

  • Onsite work 4 days a week in Milpitas
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Involvement in the development of next-generation routers
  • Engagement in impactful projects that support AI advancements
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 08/31/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This is an onsite role and will require working out of the Milpitas office location at least 4 days/week.

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 of various sizes, 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 providers, enterprise networks, and data centers with a fully unified routing and switching portfolio.

Your Impact

You will work on cutting edge, next generation routers powering AI buildout. You will be responsible for taking networking system requirements, mapping them into functional blocks for FPGA implementation, working with the cross functional team to address development requirements, participate in validation of the system, and release to manufacturing. You will work on the High-End Routing team that designs the ASR8000 routers. You will be a member of the FPGA team that designs control path FPGAs for the various boards. You will interface with Diagnostics, Software, Board design, Manufacturing and Hardware Qualification teams to ensure smooth delivery of the project. You are an experienced FPGA designer able to write RTL code, run simulations, address timing and other constraints, then generate programming files. You can work with many teams to resolve system level issues. In addition, you have good analytical skills and can deal with the complexity of System Hardware and Software interactions. You have a grasp of the system design for a router or line card and are also able to lead meetings, drive issues to resolution, and communicate clearly with all stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or relevant degree and 7+ years of related experience Or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering or relevant degree and 4+ years of related experience
  • FPGA or ASIC development experience from specification to production.
  • Experience with Verilog/System Verilog RTL coding
  • Experience with industry leading FPGA devices and tools.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Recent experience with UVM and/or VMM Verification methodology.
  • Experience with high-speed design debug.
  • Experience with advanced microprocessor-based design.
  • Low level networking card debug experience.
  • Experience with CPU based peripherals architecture.

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