Cisco
Hardware Engineer I (Full-Time) - United States
$85K–$140K
San Jose, California, US +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, US
Austin, Texas, US
RTP, North Carolina, US - Experience
- 0 years with a bachelor's degree; 1 year with a qualifying educational or workforce development program; or 2 years with a high school diploma or equivalent. Education/program must have been completed within the past 3 years or be expected within the next 12 months.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree; qualifying educational or workforce development program (e.g., Associate’s, Apprenticeship, Boot camp, or Certification); or high school diploma (or equivalent).
About the job
Contributes to hardware product development, from circuit and system design through validation and high-volume manufacturing.
What you'll do
- Work on hardware engineering in areas such as ASIC design, board design, layout, automation, validation, testing, signal integrity, or power design.
- Collaborate with multifunctional teams to determine infrastructure needs and product specifications.
- Support product development from circuit-level design through manufacturing.
What they ask for
- Meet one of the stated education/work-experience pathways: bachelor's degree with 0 years of work experience; qualifying education or workforce development program with 1 year; or high school diploma (or equivalent) with 2 years.
- Qualifying education and work experience must be in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, a related program, or equivalent academic certifications.
- Familiarity with hardware description languages and/or PCB design tools.
- Foundational knowledge of embedded systems and microcontrollers; familiarity with scripting or programming for test automation or data analysis.
Nice to have
- Experience with hardware prototyping, signal or power integrity, hardware validation/debugging, or simulation tools.
- Experience working in multifunctional teams.
Pay
$95,800.00 - $139,700.00 USD base salary; $85,400.00 - $124,100.00 USD base salary
Tools
Verilog, VHDL, Altium, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, Python, MATLAB, C/C++
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