Hardware Engineer

Who We Are

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. With ~2,100 employees across 16 countries, we design the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers of various sizes, 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 designing, developing and testing some of the most complex ASICs being developed in the industry.

Who you'll work with

UCS Servers / Hardware Engineering Servers

The Computing Systems Products Group, through The Unified Computing Systems creative architecture, helps to enable the fully unified data center. We architect the next generation unified computing systems, including compute, storage, network, visualization and management into a single platform. The team designs, implements, and delivers Computer industry leading computing system products. You will be part of the dynamic and passionate team working on exciting projects.

What you'll do In this highly visible role as a Lead Hardware Engineer:

• Lead system design on computing system products

• Prioritize and translate high level requirements into actionable milestones

• You will drive product from concept to production

• Participate in all stages of architecture, design, validation and support of computing system products

• Coordinate and contribute to engineering deliverables including specifications and test plans

• Hands-on engineering efforts for system bring up and validation in the lab

• Interact, lead and address challenging technical problems with multi-functional teams

• Act as technical liaison to key suppliers for the product and technical perspectives

• Lead decision making to resolve technical tradeoff, operational and business considerations

Who you are

You are a Hardware Engineer with 4+ years of related work experience with a broad mix of technologies

Minimum Qualifications

• Have a minimum of 4+ years of experience with BSEE, MSEE

• Experience with Compute Servers, Storage Appliance, Network Switches and PCIe Adapters.

• Demonstrated experience working with ODMs and overseas cross functional teams

• Current and/or prior experience with Intel x86 products desired. AMD EPYC/ARM product experience is a plus.

• Experience with design tools including Cadence Concept, and Allegro is a must.

• Familiar with high-speed serial interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet and Fiber Channel

• Familiar with memory and DDR protocols

Preferred Skills

• Experience with high-speed (>=25G) system design, signal integrity issues, and power distribution techniques

• Experience with lab bring up and design validation

• Ability to collaborate with other disciplines, including software, BIOS, BMC, Diagnostics and QA

• Demonstrated experience with shipping products.

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

• Prior experience leading programs is highly desirable

Why Cisco

At Cisco, each person brings their unique talents to work as a team and make a difference. Yes, our technology changes the way the world works, lives, plays and learns, but our edge comes from our people.

We connect everything - people, process, data and things - and we use those connections to change our world for the better.

We innovate everywhere

• From launching a new era of networking that adapts, learns and protects, to building Cisco Services that accelerate businesses and business results. Our technology powers entertainment, retail, healthcare, education and more - from Smart Cities to your everyday devices.

We benefit everyone

• We do all of this while striving for a culture that empowers every person to be the difference, at work and in our communities.

Colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Be you, with us!

#WeAreCisco

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.