Principal Engineer ASIC

Job Description

What You’ll be Doing

• Responsibility for development of high-performance designs/ASICs from specification to tape-out
• Work with key internal and external customers ensuring successful adoption of our technology.
• Arch/micro-architectural definition and writing arch/micro-architecture specifications.
• Guide team/write high performance, low power RTL and synthesis, physical design, and timing closure.
• Actively work with the verification team, and multi-functional with SW, HW teams to deliver high quality ASICs.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize system performance.
• Memory selection, area, and power trade-off analysis to ensure an optimized design/implementation.
• Work closely with physical implementation team to achieve timing, area, performance, and power goals.
• Ensure DFT coverage, MBIST and other key metrics needed to successfully get the silicon to production.

WHO You Are

• MS or BS with 15+ years of demonstrated ability in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering major.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience with networking and SmartNIC technologies – L2/L3 Ethernet, RDMA, PCIe, DDR etc.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a wide range of audiences spanning executives to junior engineers to customers.
• Work quickly but with a high degree of quality to resolve complicated problems.
• Possess creative analytical skills and excellent fixing/debugging skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills required to work with our global design team.
• Deep understanding of ASIC design flow
• Knowledge and hands on experience in block level synthesis, place and route, timing closure.
• Expertise in RTL design, logic synthesis, primetime constraints, prototyping, timing analysis, floor-planning
• The ability to learn new technologies and apply that knowledge quickly.
• Consistent record demonstrating the ability to meet and deliver project achievements and deadlines.

Why Cisco #WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. Here’s how we do it.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we’re “old” (30 years strong!) and only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. An AI/Machine Learning company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do – you can’t put us in a box!

But “Digital Transformation” is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, we give our egos a break, and we give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, we take bold steps, and we take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a commitment to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool.