The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. We craft the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers, the Public Sector, and Non-Profit Organizations across the world. Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) is the only unifying silicon architecture in the market that enables customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches all the way through web scale data centers and across service provider, enterprise networks, and data centers with a fully unified routing and switching portfolio. Come join us and take part in shaping Cisco's ground-breaking solutions by crafting, developing and testing some of the most sophisticated ASICs being developed in the industry. You will contribute to developing Cisco's progressive data center solutions by crafting industry-leading sophisticated chips, with full exposure to all aspects of our systems and applications, including silicon, hardware, software, telemetry, and security. Ensure complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage.

Ensure RTL quality with qualifying the design with Gate Level Simulations on netlist.

Collaborate closely with designers, architects, and software teams to address and debug issues during post-silicon bring-up, ensuring seamless integration and effective performance.

Support testing of design in emulation.

Bachelor's degree or master's Degree in equivalent experience in EE, CE, or other related field.

10+ years of related ASIC design verification experience.

Experience building test benches from scratch,



hands on experience with System Verilog constraints, structures and classes.

Scripting experience with Perl and/or Python.

Experience with Networking ASICs would be an advantage

Experience with Forwarding logic/Parsers/Buffer management/Arbitration and scheduling

Experience with Veloce/Palladium/Zebu/HAPS.

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