Meet the Team

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates creative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms like Silicon One are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development from design to qualification to production is within our team, we're able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world.

Your Impact

This role spans all phases of hardware development, from architecture and design through bring-up, validation, and qualification, combining deep technical expertise with leadership and cross-functional coordination.

Primary Responsibilities

- Participate and contribute to the system hardware design.

- Contribute to hardware specification, design, development and test.





- Work under department strategy and direction.

- Work closely with software, diagnostics, manufacturing, marketing, EDVT and MDVT test teams throughout the development process.

Minimum Qualifications

- BSEE or MSEE with 5+ years of experience in hardware board design and development.

- Prior experience in designing with x86 and/or ARM processors.

- Prior experience in designing with DDR4/DDR5 memory, PCIe gen1/gen2, SATA, USB.

- Experience in schematic capture tools like Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL (Concept HDL).

Preferred Qualifications

- Prior experience in designing Ethernet (10/100/1000Mbps, 10GE, 25GE, 40GE, 100GE) and serial interfaces like I2C, SPI, UART, etc.

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📌 Hardware Design Engineer - PCB, Schematic, board design (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cisco
📍 Bengaluru