# Senior FPGA Engineer

The application window is expected to close on: 12/04/2026This role requires the employee to work onsite from the San Jose, CA location. Meet Your team: The Network Hardware Engineering group (NHE) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for customers globally. These are cloud-enhanced systems powered by specialized Cisco Silicon One ASICs. These high-bandwidth networking switches deliver performance and functionality that scale to meet the needs of future large Data Centers and AI Clusters. We are a close-knit, creative, and multi-skilled team where each person is unique, but where we bring our talents together to design complex next generation Data Center switching products. Every team member is empowered to share their ideas and drive meaningful outcomes. Your Impact: FPGA Engineers serve a range of roles at Cisco, from IP creators and architects, to solution integrators, going from concept to production, guiding in solution verification, and ensuring that our products meet Cisco and Industry quality standards. Drive innovation includes but not limited to FPGA design, RTL development (Verilog/Sy

- **Id**: 3843063
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-senior-fpga-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T23:43:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T04:52:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6990
- **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**: 266
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.462
- **Repost share**: 0.086
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 154900
- **Max**: 225300
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 225300

## Technologies

- **SystemVerilog** — Optional: no
- **Verilog** — Optional: no
- **Xilinx Vivado** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T23:43:40Z

## 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**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 225300
- **Is top pay**: yes

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