Cisco
Senior ASIC Engineer - Post Silicon Validation
$149K–$282K
San Jose, California, US · Onsite Only · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years with a bachelor's degree; 4+ years with a master's degree; or 1+ years with a PhD.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering; master's degree or PhD also accepted. No equivalent-experience alternative stated.
About the job
Plans and executes post-silicon ASIC bring-up, validation, characterization, and debug, and develops automation and test infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Plan silicon bring-up infrastructure and validate ASICs through functional, performance, stress, and corner-case testing.
- Debug functional and electrical issues with design, verification, board, firmware, and architecture teams; provide feedback on test escapes, yield, and silicon errata.
- Develop validation automation, test suites, result-analysis, and regression frameworks using lab instrumentation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 7+ years of experience; Master's degree and 4+ years; or PhD and 1+ years.
- Experience in ASIC post-silicon validation, bring-up, and debug.
- Experience bringing up I2C, SPI, JTAG, PCIe, and Ethernet.
- Experience with firmware, bootloaders, and low-level silicon debug; fluency in C, Python, and scripting for validation automation.
Nice to have
- Experience with HBM or DDR memory subsystems and electrical or thermal performance characterization.
- System Verilog/UVM-based verification or emulation-based verification experience.
Pay
$167,700.00 to $245,200.00 USD (salary range); $167,700.00 - $282,000.00 USD (salary range, New York City Metro Area); $149,100.00 - $250,900.00 USD (salary range, Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Tools
I2C, SPI, JTAG, PCIe, Ethernet, C, Python, System Verilog/UVM
AI focus
The silicon platforms support products for the AI era; this role focuses on ASIC post-silicon validation, with no specific AI development work stated.
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