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Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardwareplatforms-like Silicon One-are shaping the technologyindustry. 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 productdevelopment-from designto qualification to production-is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to powerthe future of the digital world.\nCisco Silicon One 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 through web-scale data centers and across service providers, 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.\nThe Cisco Service Provider Routing HardwareEngineering team develops next-generation hardwareby adhering to IEEE standards and industry best practices. Our engineers drive innovation across the full productlifecycle, serving as IP architects, creators, and solution integrators who manage products from conceptto production.\nWe designa new class of high-performance routers for the Internet of the future: Cisco 8000 Series routers. These cloud-enhanced systems are powered by Cisco Silicon One ASICs and deliver the scale, performance, and efficiency required by critical infrastructure. You will collaborate with boarddesign, ASIC, signal integrity, power, software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, systems, and supplier teams to define, design, validate, and release high-performance networkingproducts.\nYour Impact\nAs a Lead HardwareBoardDesignEngineer, you will be a recognized technical leader for a product. You will apply deep hardwareexpertise to define architecture, lead complex productinitiatives, resolve difficult technical issues, and guide engineers across disciplines. This is an individual contributor role with broad technical influence; it does not require people management but demands technical independence, sound judgment, visible ownership, and leadership across teams. As a Lead HardwareBoardDesignEngineer, you will be responsible for:\nDefining board-level architecture, technologychoices, power-delivery strategy, and designdirection for complex networkingproducts.\nLeading major hardwareinitiatives from requirements and architecture through validation, qualification, and manufacturingrelease.\nSolving novel or high-risk signal integrity, powerintegrity, reliability, thermal, and manufacturingchallenges.\nActively participating in designreviews, architecture discussions, cross-functionaltechnical investigations, and laboratory work.\nGuiding teams to clear, data-driven decisions.\nMentoring engineers and improving hardwaredelivery processes.\nEstablishing practical designmethods, constraints, verificationstrategies, and quality improvements.\nPartnering with silicon vendors, PCBfabricators, contract manufacturers, and other suppliers on technical tradeoffs and productexecution.\nCommunicating technical risks, alternatives, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.\nContributing to product-line technologyroadmaps.\nOwning the designand validationof a sub-system.\nEnsuring designs meet functionalspecifications.\nParticipating as a valuable team member in cross-functionalmeetings, specification creation, and technical documentation.\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or ComputerEngineering and 7+ years of experience, or Master’s in Electrical Engineering or ComputerEngineering and 5+ years of related experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or ComputerEngineering and 2+ years of related experience.\nExperience with hardwareboarddesignand system-level development, including high-speeddigital design, signal integrity, powerintegrity, and hardwarevalidationusing lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, logicanalyzers, and spectrum analyzers.\nExperience with taking boarddesigns from conceptthrough production, including schematicsgeneration, layouts, troubleshooting, and hands-on use of designtools such as CadenceConceptand Allegro.\nExperience with networking, server, computer, or high-performance embeddedsystems, including technologies such as high-speedEthernet, PCIe, DDR, SerDes, advanced packaging, multi-phase powerconversion, thermalmanagement, EMI/EMC.\nExperience with leading technical projects or programs, partnering with silicon vendors, fabricators, contract manufacturers, or technologysuppliers, and leading multi-site engineering teams or cross-functionaltiger teams.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMethodical, analytical approach to problem solving, experience with breaking down complex issues, evaluating evidence, and documenting clear conclusions and next steps.\nExperience with networkingproducts design.\nExperience with co-packaged optics, near-packaged optics, or optical and signal-integrity budgetanalysis.\nExperience creating testscripts in Python.\nExperience collaborating with cross-functionalteams.\nEffective verbal and written communication skills.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $171,600.00 to $245,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\n\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. 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