Job Description

The ASIC Group works closely with other development teams within Cisco, including marketing, system hardware, software, product engineering, and manufacturing. Through this collaboration, members of our group play a major role in the process of defining, developing and bringing new products to market across Cisco's product line.Open-minded, driven, diverse and deeply creative people at Cisco design the hardware that makes the internet work. Bring your knowledge of computers and networking and take it to a new level in any one of the following product categories including: cloud, social, mobile/wireless, video, VoIP, big data, collaboration, web, Internet of Things, routing, switching, IPv6, data center, HPC, TelePresence and many more. Your work will affect billions globally.What You’ll DoParticipate in the design, development, and verification of high-performance communications processors and ASICs for a wide range of Cisco’s products.As a leader in the development of award-winning communications and network processing silicon/ASICs, Cisco’s Core ASIC Group will soon begin development of multiple next-generation designs. We seek dedicated and driven engineers to work on this exciting and strategic opportunity. As a member of the team you will work with top industry talent and contribute in system architecture, network processor (NPU) architecture, Ethernet processing, digital signal processing, modeling, high-speed logic design & verification, custom processor development, dense and efficient memory designs, custom library development (Standard Cell and I/O), physical design & DFT, Signal Integrity, and complexed packaging technology. Our silicon is developed using sophisticated VLSI design techniques in the latest deep submicron silicon process nodes with ownership extending to complete in-house physical design.