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You'll be joining our Physical Design team within Cisco Silicon One, which is responsible for the entire backend methodology and flow development from RTL to GDS. This is a critical part of the group leading the development of high-quality VLSI designs.

Our Backend Engineers handle all aspects of chip design, including Definition, Physical Synthesis, Place and Route, Optimization, Timing Closure, Design Floor Planning.

You will be leveraging your backend and physical design experience to drive the development, optimization, and innovation of CAD methodologies and tools, ensuring the highest quality and efficiency in our chip design flows from RTL to GDS.

As the Physical Design Manager, you will provide strategic and technical leadership to a team of engineers, guiding them through the entire chip design lifecycle. You will be responsible for the group's output, including Definition, Physical Synthesis, Place and Route, Optimization, Timing Closure, Design Floor Planning.

Write and review micro-architecture specifications
Implement RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog) to meet timing, performance, and power requirements
Contribute to full chip integration, timing methodology, and analysis
Collaborate with verification engineers to resolve bugs and achieve coverage closure
Work with the physical design team to close timing and PnR issues
Support design methodology evolution and best practices
Perform debug, root-cause analysis, and post-silicon validation in the lab

We are looking for best-in-class Physical Design Engineers to join our outstanding Networking Silicon engineering team, developing the industry's best high-speed communication devices, delivering the highest throughput and lowest latency! Come and take a part in designing our groundbreaking and innovating chips, enjoy working in a meaningful, growing and highly professional environment where you make a significant impact in a technology-focused company.

What you'll be doing:
Physical design of blocks according to specifications under challenging constraints targeting for the best power, area, and performance.
Be exposed and work on a variety of challenging designs (including high cell count and HS blocks). Resolving complex timing and congestion problems.
Daily work involves all aspects of physical design chip development (RTL2GDS) - synthesis, power and clock distribution, place and route, timing closure, power and noise analysis, and physical verification.
Taking part inflows development.

As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a highly skilled Chip Top Physical Design Engineer focusing on implementation to join our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up.
If you thrive on solving complex, unnamed challenges in deep-submicron processes, your place is with us.

As a Physical Design Engineer, you will be a key hands-on member of our PD Team in the Israel R&D center. You will execute the physical design of the SoC Top level for chips that drive the worlds largest AI clusters. You will be deeply involved in all PD disciplines of the chip, driving the tape-out (T.O.) GDS to meet strict signoff criteria (Timing, LVS, EMIR, DRC, PV, etc.), ensuring our silicon meets the extreme performance, power, and area (PPA) targets required for AI scale.

Key Responsibilities
Execute SoC Top-level physical design and actively drive full-chip convergence.
Perform Top-Level physical implementation, including floor-planning, Place & Route (P&R), Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS), Power/Clock distribution, Power Integrity, and Timing/Physical signoff.
Work closely with the Architecture, Design, DFT, and Product teams to achieve optimal Power, Performance, and Area (PPA). This involves participating in feasibility studies for new architectures and optimizing runs to ensure the best Quality of Results (QoR).
Resolve complex signal integrity, thermal, and power challenges inherent in high-speed connectivity silicon.
Collaborate closely with the Package team on Bump-map-to-Ballout design, taking all signal integrity aspects into consideration.

The Design for Test (DFT) team is part of the design group, which focuses on logic design, RTL development, and running verification tests.

Their main role is to design test structures embedded within the chip to ensure proper functionality after manufacturing.

The goal is to detect potential manufacturing defects with maximum efficiency and filter out faulty units before they reach the market.



What You'll Do

Insert DFT logic, perform synthesis, and run Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) to ensure hardware testability.

Execute Gate Level Simulations, timing checks, and DRC checks to maintain rigorous design integrity and performance standards.

Run regressions and perform deep-dive debugging on simulation failures as part of the core verification process.

Work in a small, agile team with an intimate atmosphere that offers direct mentoring and broad professional growth.

We are looking for best-in-class Physical Design Engineers to join our outstanding Networking Silicon engineering team, developing the industry's best high-speed communication devices, delivering the highest throughput and lowest latency! Come and take a part in designing our groundbreaking and innovating chips, enjoy working in a meaningful, growing and highly professional environment where you make a significant impact in a technology-focused company.

What you'll be doing:

Perform physical layout for full-chip level, integration, pinning and bump route.

Work with block owners and project managers to assure high quality convergence in all layout aspects.

You will be responsible for chip layout from the floorplanning stage through tape-out.

As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a talented Senior ASIC Design Engineer to help build our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up. This is an exciting opportunity to take on meaningful product ownership in a new site, designing the digital blocks that sit at the heart of our most ambitious connectivity projects.

As a Senior ASIC Design Engineer, you won't just build chips-you will be part of a team defining the next generation of AI infrastructure main components. The complex digital blocks under your micro-architecture and implementation responsibilities will power the world's largest AI clusters. You will own the journey from high-level definition through RTL implementation and backend support, transforming complex logic challenges into elegant, high-performance hardware. If you thrive on solving challenging problems in deep-submicron processes and want to contribute to the digital design foundation for AI infrastructure connectivity, this is your opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

Design Ownership & Implementation
Own the journey from high-level definition through micro-architecture, coding, and debug to backend implementation support
Tackle complex logic challenges and transform them into elegant, high-performance hardware solutions
Serve as the point of contact for your logic blocks, interacting with Architecture, Verification, and Backend teams

Quality Assurance & Design Optimization
Utilize industry-leading EDA tools (Lint, CDC, Synthesis, Timing, Power) and in-house quality assurance tools to ensure designs are robust, scalable, and power-efficient
Apply design techniques to meet PPA (Power, Performance, Area) targets
Contribute to design quality through verification and validation activities

Methodology Innovation & Collaboration
Participate in design methodology improvements and tool automation initiatives
Leverage AI assistance tools and contribute to in-house automation development to make engineering workflows faster and smarter
Collaborate effectively across teams to ensure seamless integration

Design and verify custom digital hardware components and architectures that enable high-performance, tightly integrated computation workloads and interface custom tensor unit for advanced AI/ML applications.

Responsibilities
Design, implement, and verify RTL blocks for memory, control, and compute subsystems within custom multiphysics computation unit.

Collaborate with system software and architecture teams to define block-level specifications and ensure alignment with performance and integration goals.

Develop and maintain functional verification infrastructure to validate design correctness across simulation and hardware testbenches.

Support synthesis, timing analysis, and backend integration, working closely with physical design and CAD engineers.

Contribute to architectural exploration and hardware-software co-design efforts to shape future iterations of compute platform.

As we expand our presence in Israel, we're seeking a visionary Silicon Technical Program Manager to help build our local engineering powerhouse from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to take on meaningful product ownership in a new site, leading the physical implementation strategy for chips that power the world's largest AI clusters.

As an Technical Program Manager, you will be the key architect of our silicons operational reality. You wont just track timelines - you will help establish our local execution culture and technical standards, owning the cross-functional journey of transforming complex logic into high-performance silicon.

Key Responsibilities
Drive and manage ASIC development and subsystems from concept through to production in collaboration with internal teams and external vendors.
Provide hands-on program management throughout the full development cycle of silicon and firmware, including concept, design, development, fabrication, validation, and production release.
Work closely with the software, hardware, and architecture teams to align with product requirements and ensure all constraints are met.
Lead process improvements across multiple teams and functions to drive better collaboration and efficiency.
Independently manage complex projects with minimal supervision, ensuring timelines and milestones are met.
Deliver high-quality ASIC solutions products while collaborating with product management and architecture teams.