# ASIC Layout Engineer

Meet the Team We develop the foundation IP behind the Cisco Silicon One platform, which powers the world's most advanced switches and routers. Our international team delivers the standard cell libraries and analog IP that Silicon One ASICs are built on, on groundbreaking process technology. About the Role We are hiring an ASIC Engineer to design and verify standard cells for our next-generation ASICs on innovative FinFET and GAA nodes. You will build high-performance cell layouts, take them to clean physical verification, and run library QA checks before release. You will work closely with senior engineers and with the circuit design, characterization and physical design teams. This role offers broad hands-on exposure and a clear path to technical ownership. What You'll Do Design standard cell layouts: logic, high-drive, clock, level shifter, tap/boundary and specialty cells. Optimize cell layouts for density, performance, power, EM and manufacturability. Run physical verification and fix issues to clean signoff: DRC, LVS, antenna, ERC and extraction. Run library QA checks and resolve view mismatches across GDS, LEF, Liberty, NDM and CDL. Develop and maintain scripts for layout, ve

- **Id**: 3537810
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-asic-layout-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Yerevan, Armenia
- **Countries**: AM
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T18:15:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-30
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T14:31:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 6
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 286
- **Ghost share**: 0.045
- **Stale share**: 0.458
- **Repost share**: 0.098
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 25
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 38000
- **Max usd**: 92000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 769

## Technologies

- **Cadence Quantus** — Optional: no
- **Cadence Virtuoso** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Synopsys StarRC** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 6

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: yes

## Hiring locations

- **Armenia** — Iso: AM; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-30T18:15:54Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 62
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.62
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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