Meet the Team
Join Cisco’s High-Speed Optics team—an innovative group dedicated to advancing the design, integration, and validation of cutting-edge optical modules and interfaces. Our team’s work is vital to Cisco’s leadership in high-speed networking, powering the backbone of data centers and enterprise optical networks worldwide. With a diverse, highly skilled group of engineers, we foster an open, collaborative, and intellectually curious environment where every voice is valued. We are passionate about pushing boundaries, driving new technological frontiers, and shaping the future of optical communications. If you thrive in a dynamic and forward-thinking setting, you’ll find this team both inspiring and rewarding.
Your Impact
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You will architect, design, layout, measure and productize high-speed TIA and Driver in CMOS process.
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You will lead efforts for a complex chip, mentor team members and track deliverables, participate in peer review of complex IC designs and provide solid design methodology from conception to production.
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You will also collaborate with packaging and hardware design team to ensure signal and power integrity specifications are met.
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You will define the qualification and wafer test for the designs** **
Minimum qualifications:
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BSEE degree with 12+ years of experience or equivalent or an MS degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent or a PhD with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent
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Design, simulation and measurement of
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High-speed ICs such as: Transimpedance Amplifiers, Linear drivers, Programmable gain amplifiers, and equalization technics
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Basic Analog circuits such as: Biasing circuits, voltage regulators, Opamps
Preferred qualifications:
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Experience with electrical transceiver applications including backplane and cable communications
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Experience with CMOS and FinFET technology
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High-frequency layout experience a plus: Passive component design: inductors, transformers, transmission-lines, etc.
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Floor planning (power/ground, digital/analog signal routing, etc.) experience
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Custom transistor layout experience
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Experience designing for manufacturability
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Experience with Cadence (virtuoso), Spectre/APS/SpectreX, Matlab, EMX
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. 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.
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