ASIC Engineering Technical Leader- STA
San Jose
Saturday, 02 May 2026
Define, design and verify ASIC and ASIC subsystems to be deployed in a range of Cisco platforms. Contribute to a multi-disciplined engineering team to meet the power, performance, and area goals for products. Design, document, and develop ASIC subsystems for release in high volume and quality. Help define the process, methods, and tools for design and implementation of complex developments. What You’ll Do:Oversees the definition, architecture and design of high performance ASI - Cs. Oversees all applications and code including methodology of reusable code. Oversees code creation and determines methodology behind coding. Consults for architecture and design decisions for complex areas. Drives design solutions across the business. Creates guidelines and standards. Creates innovative verification strategies. Oversees system level verification using test benches. Ensures culture of code reviews and postmortems. Architects and designs analog/mixed-signal circuits. Reviews complex IC designs and makes recommendations for improvements. Directs the mixed-signal team to define requirements, influences packaging and hardware team to ensure specifications are met. Oversees all physical design functions bringing technical expertise to highly complex scenarios. Interfaces with vendors and design leads on complex issues. Drives different technology design rules to develop innovative packages. Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor’s with 10 years of related experience, or Master’s with 5 years of related experience, or PhD with 2 years of related experience. Prior experience with Integration for STA including Hyperscale and hierarchical analysis with parasitic stitching, IO budgeting, and flat parasitic extraction. Prior experience in developing timing constraints and signing off timing on blocks/sub system in advanced process nodes Prior experience with timing closure with various timing ECO including transition, setup, hold, noise, xtalk, and power recovery. Prior experience with various on-chip variation including AOCV, POCV and voltage, temperature, aging-based timing derates. Preferred skills:Synthesis Tools: Synopsys. DC/ DCG/ FC Formal Verification : Synopsys, Formality and Cadence LEC Parasitic Extraction : Synopsys, Star-RCXT, Cadence Quantus Static Timing Analysis & ECO: Synopsys Primetime/ PTPX/ Tweaker/ Prime. Closure, Cadence Tempus Scripting: TCL, Perl is required; Python is a plus.