# ASIC Physical Design Technical Lead

The application window is expected to close on: 12/10/2026Meet the Team The Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms-like Silicon One-are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development-from design to qualification to production-is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world. Your Impact Fullchip Floorplan by understanding the architecture of the design, foundry integration guidelines and IP placement constraints Collaborate with the system and package design teams to understand the requirements and incorporate into the fullchip floorplan Perform hierarchical implementation flow, including partition, pin assignment, clock plan and bump planning; Handson experience with Fullchip clock mesh and Flex-HTree methods RTL-to-GDSII implementation: Floorpl

- **Id**: 3803209
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-asic-physical-design-technical-lead>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States, Austin, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T12:00:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7431
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **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**: 284
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.475
- **Repost share**: 0.092
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 186900
- **Max**: 307800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 307800

## Technologies

- **Ansys RedHawk** — Optional: no
- **Cadence Pegasus** — Optional: no
- **Siemens Calibre** — Optional: no
- **Synopsys PrimeTime** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T12:23:47Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 307800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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