Cisco
Hardware Design Engineer
$124K–$226K
Milpitas, California, US +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Location
- Milpitas, California, US
San Jose, California, US - Experience
- 5 years with a bachelor’s degree, or 3 years with a master’s degree.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical or computer engineering.
About the job
Designs and supports high-performance circuit boards for Cisco networking hardware, including board development, debugging, verification, and reliability improvement.
What you'll do
- Design and sustain complex, high-speed multilayer PCBs, including serial links and power delivery networks.
- Debug hardware failures and conduct signal integrity, power, and component-level root-cause analysis.
- Develop and execute test plans; review schematics, BOMs, layouts, routing, and failure-analysis reports.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering plus 5 years of related experience, or a master’s degree in electrical or computer engineering plus 3 years of related experience.
- Experience with schematic capture and PCB layout oversight for high-complexity systems.
- Experience debugging hardware with high-speed equipment such as oscilloscopes, VNAs, or logic analyzers.
- Experience with Concept, Allegro, LTspice, or similar industry-standard hardware design suites.
Nice to have
- Automation skills using python or perl; experience writing hardware functional specifications.
- Experience with PCIe, MDIO, SPI, I2C, DDR4/DDR5 DIMMs, storage products, signal integrity, board-mounted power design, FPGAs, CPLD, or shipping products.
Pay
$138,100.00 to $196,500.00 USD base salary; $138,100.00 - $226,000.00 USD base salary; $124,000.00 - $201,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
Concept, Allegro, LTspice, python, perl, PCIe, MDIO, SPI
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