ASIC Design Verification Engineer, Technical Leader

This role will work onsite out of our San Jose, CA office.

About 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.

Responsibilities

• Maintain existing DV environments and enhance them
• Construct test bench including scoreboard, agents, sequencers, and monitors for new blocks
• Write test plan, develop test cases, debug regression failures and drive to module verification closure
• Ensure complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage
• Use AI tools to develop innovative methods and processes to improve quality of design verification

Requirements

• Bachelor's with 8+ years or Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience
• Prior experience with System Verilog and UVM methodology
• Prior experience in verifying complex blocks, cluster, and/or top level for ASIC/SOC
• Prior experience building test benches from scratch, hands-on experience with System Verilog constraints, structures and classes
• Prior experience with functional coverage and constrained random DV environments
• Scripting skills: Perl and/or Python scripting

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong domain experience in one or more protocols is a plus – PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, AHB/AXI, DDR, MMU
• Experience with Veloce/HAPS is a plus
• Formal verification (iev/vc formal) knowledge is a plus

Why Cisco?

At 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. Fueled 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.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 for new hires 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.

Full salary ranges for specific locations:

• New York City Metro Area: $186,900.00 - $307,800.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $166,300.00 - $274,100.00

For quota-based sales roles, the ranges include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Paid time off:
  • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
  • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
  • Paid year-end holiday shutdown
  • 4 paid days off for personal wellness
  • Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period
  • Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program (no defined limit, subject to business limitations)
  • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours carried forward
  • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues
  • Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• Eligibility for annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
• Performance-based incentive pay (sales roles), split between quota and non-quota components
• Grants of Cisco restricted stock units, vesting over time with continued employment