Cisco
Hardware Engineering Technical Leader
$151K–$282K
San Jose, California, US +1 · Onsite Only · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, US
San Francisco, California, US - Experience
- 8+ years with a bachelor’s degree; 6+ years with a master’s degree; or 3 years in system-level development with a PhD.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Telecommunications; or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
About the job
Leads design, specification, bring-up, and troubleshooting of next-generation hyperscaler switch hardware based on Silicon One and/or merchant ASICs.
What you'll do
- Define and design switch hardware, including system and board specifications, schematics, and FPGA design.
- Bring up and troubleshoot systems and boards, coordinating with ASIC, DFT, Signal Integrity, software, Diagnostics, and Manufacturing teams.
- Debug hardware in labs and act as technical liaison with major component suppliers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Telecommunications and 8+ years of experience; or Master’s degree in one of these fields and 6+ years; or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 3 years in system-level development.
- Experience with common hardware technologies including power, clock, memory, CPU, and system interfaces.
- Experience with complex high-speed board design and board bring-up.
- Experience with schematics/layout, hardware bring-up, troubleshooting, system-level testing, and working with software teams on system bring-up, porting, and device configuration at register level.
Nice to have
- Experience with PCB and Verilog HDL/VHDL design; scripting with Python or Tcl; and lab bring-up and product design validation.
- Knowledge of Ethernet protocols and interfaces, including gigabit through 800G, or DRAM, CPU subcomplex, PCIe, I2C, SPI, and MDC/MDIO.
Pay
$171,600.00 to $245,000.00 USD base salary; $171,600.00 - $281,800.00 USD base salary; $151,300.00 - $250,900.00 USD base salary
Tools
Silicon One, FPGA, ASIC, Verilog HDL, VHDL, Python, Tcl, Ethernet
AI focus
The role designs switch hardware platforms for the AI era; no specific AI development work is stated.
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