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Signal & Power Integrity Hardware ASIC Simulation Engineer (Hybrid)

Cisco • $155K — $222K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with relevant signal and power integrity experience.
  • Proficient in high-speed design principles like Transmission Line Theory and impedance network analysis.
  • Experience with EDA tools for signal and power integrity simulations such as Cadence Sigrity and Ansys HFSS.
  • Conduct detailed layout reviews and physical design validation using Cadence APD.
  • Knowledgeable in SPICE for circuit-level analysis and signal modeling.

Responsibilities

  • Develop design rules for ultra-high-speed signaling to meet power and performance goals.
  • Analyze substrate signal and power integrity, collaborating with the layout team for optimal solutions.
  • Design and document ASIC packages for high-volume production, including post-layout extraction.
  • Collaborate with system partners and vendors to resolve complex technical challenges.
  • Ensure adherence to advanced technology design rules throughout product development.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements, including onsite and fully remote opportunities.
  • Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology in the ASIC domain.
  • Collaboration with a specialized team of experts in advanced IC design.
  • Participation in the development of solutions that impact global networking architecture.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 09/30/2026
This role is based in our San Jose, CA office, with a preference for candidates who can commute onsite 4-5 days per week. We are open to considering candidates for fully remote work.

Meet the Team

Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) is a business organization with a long track record of building complex and high-performance Silicon ASICs. Our silicon devices drive the world's most complex networks and carry over 90% of IP traffic. Cisco Silicon One 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.

We are a highly specialized ASIC team with experts in all aspects of advanced IC package design and heterogeneous system integration. Our substrates use the latest 2.5D fanout technologies for large-scale integration, using the latest signaling and data transfer technologies. 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

We are seeking a qualified Signal and Power Integrity Engineer to help us develop our next generation ASIC packaging to help define, design and verify ASIC packaging to be deployed in a range of Cisco platforms.

  • Develop, document, and implement design rules for ultra-high-speed signaling, ensuring power, performance, and area goals are met for products.
  • Analyze substrate signal integrity (SI) and power integrity (PI), providing feedback and collaborating with the layout team to develop optimal solutions across interposer, substrate, and PCB.
  • Design, document, and develop ASIC packages for high-volume, high-quality release, including post-layout extraction and reporting.
  • Collaborate with system partners, vendors, and design leads to achieve combined power and signal integrity and to resolve complex technical issues using advanced technology design rules.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 6+ years of relevant signal and power integrity experience, or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and 3+ years of relevant signal and power integrity experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering and 0+ years of related experience, or equivalent related work experience.
  • High-Speed Design & Theory: Expertise in high-speed design principles, including Transmission Line Theory, electromagnetics, scattering parameters, and impedance network analysis, applied to 56G PAM4 SerDes architectures, channel modeling, and BER prediction.
  • SI/PI Simulation Proficiency: Experience with pre- and post-layout signal and power integrity (SI/PI) simulations using industry-standard EDA tools such as Cadence Sigrity, Ansys HFSS, and Keysight ADS.
  • Layout Review & Physical Validation: Experience conducting detailed layout reviews and physical design validation using tools such as Cadence APD and Ansys EM flows to ensure signal performance and crosstalk mitigation.
  • Circuit Analysis: Working knowledge of SPICE for circuit-level analysis, signal modeling, and performance validation.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Skilled in articulating ideas and technical concepts to diverse audiences, both verbally and in writing.
  • Experience with high-bandwidth memory (HBM) or high-speed memory interface SI.
  • Experience with die-to-die interfaces (UCIe or proprietary).
  • Experience with advanced packaging (CoWoS, EMIB, interposer-based designs), including SI/PI analysis of 2.5D ASIC packaging.
  • Working knowledge of Vector Network Analysis.
  • Basic knowledge of IBIS.

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