Cisco
Hardware Engineer
$133K–$259K
RTP, North Carolina, US · Onsite Only · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in hardware board design and development.
- Education
- BSEE or MSEE
About the job
Designs and develops hardware boards and systems for Cisco Edge and Access routing products, guiding designs from architecture through bring-up, validation, qualification, and production readiness.
What you'll do
- Contribute to system hardware design, specifications, development, and testing.
- Support board design through test, bring-up, validation, qualification, and production readiness.
- Coordinate development with software, diagnostics, manufacturing, marketing, EDVT, and MDVT teams.
What they ask for
- BSEE or MSEE.
- 7+ years of experience in hardware board design and development.
- Experience taking a design from concept to production and designing with x86 and/or ARM processors.
- Experience with DDR4/DDR5 memory, PCIe, SATA, USB, and Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL (Concept HDL).
Nice to have
- Experience with HyperLynx or SPICE; designing Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGAs or CPLDs using Verilog.
- Experience in high-speed board design, signal integrity, power distribution, Ethernet, and serial interfaces.
Pay
$132,800.00 to $185,100.00 (base salary); $154,900.00 - $259,100.00 (base salary); $136,500.00 - $228,300.00 (base salary)
Tools
x86, ARM, DDR4/DDR5, PCIe, SATA, USB, Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL (Concept HDL), HyperLynx
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