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Senior ASIC Engineer - Post Silicon Validation

San Jose, California, US💼 Full-time💰 $167,700–$167,700🗓 2026-09-30

Core

Post-silicon validation and bring-up of ASICs for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products.

Role type

Senior IC ASIC validation engineer

Builds

Hardware platforms for AI-era networking infrastructure

Domain

Semiconductor hardware validation

Required skills

ASIC bring-up, functional and performance testing, lab instrumentation, firmware debugging, C/Python scripting, standard peripheral interfaces (I2C, SPI, JTAG), protocols (PCIe, Ethernet)

Preferred skills

Memory subsystems (HBM, DDR), electrical and thermal characterization, System Verilog/UVM, emulation-based verification

Responsibilities

Plan and set up Silicon Bring-up infrastructure; root-cause and resolve functional and electrical issues; execute functional and performance testing; develop validation automation and test suites; apply lab instrumentation for characterization; provide feedback on test escapes and yield issues

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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