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Cisco is seeking ASIC Physical Design Engineers to join our Silicon One Team. As a member of our team, you will work with cutting-edge silicon technologies and processes to develop large-scale, complex devices, pushing the limits of feasibility.

Why You’ll Love Cisco

We change the World, you will become passionate about your employer and the brand you represent. Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more meaningful than ever before in our lives. Our employees' groundbreaking ideas impact everything. Here, that means we take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real-world impact. You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You'll be in a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you'll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired.

What You'll Do

• Engage in full chip physical implementation, covering the process from RTL to GDSII, and collaborate with Front-End teams to understand design architecture for effective implementation.

• Perform gate-level netlist synthesis (physical synthesis) and execute physical implementation tasks such as floorplanning, placement, Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), and routing.

• Optimize design for power, performance, and area, and conduct formal verification to ensure design integrity.

• Perform Static Timing Analysis (STA), complete physical verification, and achieve signoff closure.

• Analyze and resolve Electromigration (EM) and IR-drop (IR) issues to meet signoff requirements.

Who You'll Work With

You'll be part of the Cisco Silicon One team, which is at the heart of Cisco’s software and ASIC design efforts. As part of our team, you’ll contribute to the development of our next-generation network devices—Cisco Silicon One™. We are revolutionizing the industry by building a new internet for the 5G era, providing a unified, programmable silicon architecture that serves as the foundation for all of Cisco's future routing products. Our devices are designed to be universally adaptable across service providers and web-scale markets, catering to both fixed and modular platforms. They deliver high speed without compromising on programmability, buffering, power efficiency, scale, or feature flexibility. Cisco Silicon One ™ is a ground-breaking, groundbreaking technology that will serve our customers and end users for decades to come. The Internet now has a new, faster, better, and safer engine!

Who You Are

You are a skilled engineer who has strong communication skills having interest in building strong connections with other team members, you're self-motivated and well-organized.

Minimum qualifications:

• B.Sc./M.Sc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or any other relevant field.

• Proven experience in ASIC physical design and verification,

• Knowledge and experience in block-level synthesis, place, and route, timing closure.

• Knowledge of industry-standard PnR and signoff tools and their capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of all aspects of Physical construction and Integration.

• Knowledge in Physical Design Verification methodology LVS/DRC.

• Familiarity with physical design EDA tools (such as Synopsys, Cadence, etc.).

• Understanding of Static Timing Analysis, timing closure, and design constraints.

• Experience in scripting languages like Tcl, Python, Perl.

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We adopt digital and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can’t put us in a box!

But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take the difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world-changing? Be you, with us!

#WeAreCisco

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.