Signal and Power Integrity Engineer | 4 to 7 Years | Bangalore

Meet the Team

At Cisco, Bangalore, the Common Hardware Group (CHG) architects, designs, builds, and delivers world-class Access, Edge, Aggregation, and Core routers that cater to the growing bandwidth demands of leading service providers and large enterprises.

Your Impact

As Signal and Power Integrity Engineer in this team of outstanding engineers from a diverse group of backgrounds, you will:

- Be responsible for delivering system-level signal and power integrity solutions for large sophisticated high-speed systems, boards & packages.
- Develop SI rules, review design implementation, build test plans, and document characterization & measurement reports.
- Improve & optimize design margins through interconnect, timing and crosstalk analysis, 3D EM & channel simulations for high-speed designs.
- Design & characterize test structures & channel models to correlate simulations with measurements for Serdes and interconnects.
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams - HW, PCB Layout, SW, MFG, ASIC.
- Be responsible for electrical characterization and verification of Transmitter/Receiver SERDES settings to meet the industry standards and internal Cisco requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering,
- 4+ yrs of demonstrated ability in hardware design with emphasis on Signal and Power Integrity
- Hands on exposure to lab measurements including real-time scope, sampling scope, Spectrum analyzer, VNA & TDR.
- Good understanding of EM and transmission line concepts, timing, jitter, crosstalk, noise, channel modeling, channel equalization techniques, power delivery & decoupling.
- Experience with 56G PAM4, 25G & 10G NRZ Serdes technologies, and DDR - simulation, bring up, debug, measurements, and optimization.
- Thorough knowledge of PCB stack-up design - standard processes, performance vis-à-vis PCB materials, surface finishes, vendor capabilities, and manufacturing trade-offs.
- Proficiency with simulation and analysis tools like ADS, HFSS, HSPICE, Cadence Allegro, PowerSI, MATLAB, and Hyperlynx.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills and capability to present concepts, analysis, and updates to larger teams and forums.

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.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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