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The Senior Silicon Photonics PIC Design Engineer will help build next-generation Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) that power high-performance optical interconnect solutions. In this role, you will lead the design, simulation, layout, and system-level testing of advanced silicon photonics components, while contributing to optical test instrumentation for emerging semiconductor test markets.
As a member of the Silicon Photonics Engineering Staff, you will be a key player in the definition, implementation, and validation of complex automated test equipment that interfaces optical ports of silicon photonic devices at all stages of fabrication, from wafer probe to packaged test.
Lead the design, simulation, layout, and system-level testing of advanced silicon photonics components and Photonic Integrated Circuits.
Utilize simulation and design tools, including Ansys/Lumerical and Cadence Virtuoso, to design, validate, and optimize photonic designs.
Collaborate closely with design, layout, EIC, packaging, validation, quality, and system architecture teams to develop high-performance integrated photonic circuits and validate link performance.
Partner with fab and process engineers to define and optimize device design and implement process monitoring structures.
Develop test and qualification plans in coordination with validation and quality engineering teams.
Conduct rigorous testing and characterization of devices and PICs, including passive and active photonic components.
Engage in direct collaboration with silicon foundries to streamline processes and support successful tape-out execution.

In this role, you will contribute to the development of complex ASIC package designs from early planning and exploration through implementation and tapeout. You will collaborate across package design, layout, SI/PI, and silicon teams to help deliver high‑speed, robust, and manufacturable package solutions.

You will participate in package architecture activities, design tradeoff discussions, and technical problem solving while growing your expertise in advanced packaging technologies and system-level integration. This role provides an opportunity to work on some of the most advanced networking silicon products in the industry within a highly collaborative engineering environment.

Responsibilities:
As a member of the Package Design team, you will:

Lead the package design activities including planning, floorplanning, pinout optimization, stack‑up definition, and high‑speed routing support.

Collaborate with SI/PI, silicon floorplanning, layout, and manufacturing teams to ensure high‑quality package solutions.

Support package implementation activities and work closely with layout designers to ensure alignment between design intent and physical implementation.

Participate in technical investigations, design reviews, and tradeoff discussions involving performance, manufacturability, and schedule considerations.

Assist in developing and improving package design methodologies, flows, and best practices.

Contribute to debugging, issue resolution, and package bring‑up activities as needed.

You will own the complete EVB hardware bring-up process from initial power‑on through release to internal engineering teams. This role is highly practical and technical, responsible for identifying and resolving complex board- and ASIC-level hardware issues, documenting findings, and driving corrective actions.

Key responsibilities
Own and execute complete EVB hardware bring-up, validation, and qualification activities in the lab.
Perform initial board power‑up, verify power rails and sequencing, validate clocks and resets, and exercise interfaces.
Lead hands‑on debugging and root‑cause analysis of board‑level and ASIC-related hardware failures.
Read and use complex hardware schematics and PCB layout data as primary debugging tools; review PCB manufacturing data when investigating failures.
Perform detailed lab measurements (oscilloscopes, VNAs, logic analyzers, power supplies, electronic loads) and correlate results with schematics, layout, ASIC requirements, and simulations.
Collaborate with SI and PI teams to investigate signal-quality, channel-loss, reflections, power-delivery, and noise issues.
Work with FPGA and BSP/SW engineers during initial system bring-up and debugging.
Document bring-up procedures, debug findings, measurements, known issues, workarounds, and solutions.
Support manufacturing and assembly debug (PCB, SMT, soldering, component and assembly-related failures).
Drive hardware issues through identification, root‑cause analysis, corrective action, implementation, and final validation.

Our team focuses on the PHY and system aspects of our devices, including PHY firmware, calibrations, system definitions, operations, and post-silicon validation.

Key responsibilities include:

Working with the latest silicon technologies and processes to build large-scale, complex devices at the forefront of feasibility.
Contributing to the development of PHY firmware and system calibrations.
Participating in system definitions, operations, and post-silicon validation activities.

What Youll Do:

Our unique design center integrates all silicon hardware and software development disciplines under one roof. We are revolutionizing the industry by building a new internet for the 5G era, with a unified, programmable silicon architecture that will underpin future routing products. Our devices are designed for adaptability across service providers and web-scale markets, delivering high speed without compromising programmability, buffering, power efficiency, scale, or feature flexibility.

In this role, you will be leading all aspects of verification and will have a critical impact on the company's R&D path.



Responsibilities:

Define and implement robust SV/UVM verification solutions, including test benches and methodologies, to drive efficient verification closure across block-level and full-chip designs, integrating Mix-signals SoC simulation environment using Verilog, MATLAB, HW/SW Co-simulation and lab integration.
Work closely with Digital Design, Analog Design, Software, Back-end, SW and System teams to understand the functional, power and performance goals of the product and ensure its quality.

Lead hands-on lab debugging to fix complex silicon performance, characterization, and yield issues. Use bench findings and board-probing data to give feedback directly to the architecture and design teams. Lead ASIC bring-up on validation boards, focusing heavily on SerDes, high-speed interfaces, and power/clock domains. Run characterization across PVT (Process, Voltage, Temperature) conditions and analyse large datasets to resolve performance bottlenecks and improve chip yield. Write and optimize clean Python code to automate lab equipment and test internal chip logic. Serve as the technical lead for complex hardware debug, defining validation methodologies, and advanced lab measurement techniques for the team.

We are seeking a high-driven, results-oriented multidisciplinary orchestrator to act as the primary catalyst for our development infrastructure. In this role, you will operate at the critical intersection of product strategy, hardware engineering, and lab operations, serving as the connective tissue that aligns disparate teams under a unified goal. You will be responsible for driving cross-functional alignment across the organization, effectively managing stakeholders with differing ownership to ensure infrastructure roadmaps scale alongside product milestones. This position requires a self-starter comfortable pushing for success in ambiguous environments, where you will translate high-level strategy into the tactical execution of the physical and virtual ecosystems that power our development lifecycle.

Your Impact

You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of infrastructure projects, ensuring that our Sanity Test Beds and development environments are optimized to meet aggressive product launch timelines. By bridging the gap between engineering roadmaps and infrastructure requirements, you will serve as the engine that ensures our teams have the right resources at the right time, regardless of technical or organizational complexity.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Orchestration & Alignment

Unified Roadmap Integration: Translate complex product development roadmaps into long-term infrastructure requirements, driving cross-functional alignment between silicon milestones and lab availability.
Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary liaison between hardware engineering, software development, procurement, and lab operations; navigate competing priorities among stakeholders with differing ownership to keep teams synchronized.
Ambiguity Management: Proactively identify project roadblocks and navigate ambiguous environments to push critical-path dependencies to resolution.
Operational Velocity: Drive continuous improvement in infrastructure processes, identifying and removing friction to increase overall engineering velocity.
Operational Oversight & Execution

Strategic Capacity Planning: Lead high-stakes capacity management efforts, forecasting needs for power, rack space, and compute resources to proactively eliminate infrastructure bottlenecks.
Lifecycle Ownership: Oversee the full lifecycle of infrastructure projects-from initial procurement and technical specification through deployment, validation, and transition to operational readiness.
Visibility & Reporting: Drive the development of dashboards and reporting mechanisms to provide real-time visibility into infrastructure health, ensuring data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Vendor & Asset Optimization: Partner with cross-functional leadership to manage technical specifications, equipment lead times, and hardware lifecycles, ensuring a high-performance, cost-effective infrastructure footprint.

Spearhead innovative silicon architecture for AI infrastructure, guiding board design from concept through to mass production.

Act as the technical decision-maker for the project and collaborate with cross-functional teams in mechanics, thermal, PCB layout, and software/RTL.

Define product specifications, develop electrical schematics, and guide component selection.

Conduct hands-on testing in a lab environment and drive the PCB bring-up, characterization, and debugging stages.

In this role, you will be leading all aspects of verification and will have a critical impact on the company's R&D path.



Responsibilities:

Lead the full verification lifecycle and methodologies. Plan, Design and Execute verification of SV/UVM Block level and Full chip environments , creating and execution test plans, tracking progress, and ensuring verification closure across diverse Mix-signals SoC simulation using Verilog, MATLAB, HW/SW Co-simulation and lab integration.
Work closely with Digital Design, Analog Design, Software, Back-end, SW and System teams to understand the functional, power and performance goals of the product and ensure its quality.

We are looking for an experienced Design Verification engineer to join our DFT team and help establish and grow DFT DV activity in the Cisco SiliconOne DFT team. This role is relevant for engineers with experience in DV roles, either in DFT DV or in other verification domains, who are interested in becoming familiar with DFT design, verification methodologies, and the challenges of validating testability features in advanced silicon.

Your Impact
Lead and drive DFT verification activities within the Cisco SiliconOne DFT team.

Develop verification plans, environments, checkers, assertions, and coverage models for DFT features.

Verify DFT architecture and implementation in close collaboration with DFT, design, architecture, and verification teams.

Work on verification of scan, MBIST, IJTAG/JTAG, test access mechanisms, DFT controllers, and related SoC-level test features.

Debug complex pre-silicon issues across RTL, verification environments, and DFT logic.

Contribute to scalable methodologies, reusable verification components, and best practices for DFT DV.

Help bridge between general DV methodologies and DFT-specific design and verification needs.