Cisco Senior Hardware Engineer Board Designer 

United States, North Carolina, Durham 

133720954

As a hardware board designer, you will be involved in hardware design and development of our next generation of Service/Routing products and support our current generation of products as well.

• Participate and contribute to the system hardware design
• Contribute to hardware specification, design, development and test
• Drive product from concept to production
• Work under department strategy and direction
• Independently resolves and develops approach to solutions
• Work closely with software, diagnostics, manufacturing, marketing, EDVT and MDVT test teams throughout the development process

Our Minimum Requirements for this role:

• BSEE or MSEE with 6+ years of experience in hardware board design and development
• A consistent track record of taking a design from concept to production
• Experience in designing with x86 and/or ARM processors
• Experience in designing with DDR4/DDR5 memory, PCIe gen1/gen2, SATA, USB
• Extensive experience in designing Ethernet (10/100/1000Mbps, 10GE, 25GE, 40GE, 100GE) and serial interfaces like I2C, SPI, UART, RS232, etc
• Experience in high-speed board design/signal integrity and power distribution is critical
• Experience in using high-speed scopes and logic analyzers
• Experience in schematic capture tools like Cadence Allegro Design Entry HDL (Concept HDL)
• Experience designing Xilinx or Intel/Altera FPGAs or CPLDs using Verilog
• Self-motivation, teamwork and strong communication skills are critical
• Experience in using circuit simulation tools like HyperLynx, SPICE is a plus