Signal and Power Integrity Engineer | 4 to 7 Years | Bangalore
Cisco · Posted Nov 5
Networking, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT infrastructure services
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About the role
Cisco's Common Hardware Group in Bangalore architects, designs, builds, and delivers Access, Edge, Aggregation, and Core routers for service providers and large enterprises. The team focuses on high-speed hardware design, including signal and power integrity for boards, packages, and interconnect. This role delivers system-level SI/PI solutions, develops SI rules, runs 3D EM and channel simulations, and characterizes SerDes and interconnects through lab measurements.
What you will do
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 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.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Cisco
Cisco Systems, Inc. is a worldwide leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions that transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. The company specializes in routing, switching, data center infrastructure, and software-defined networking designed for enterprises of all sizes. Today, Cisco drives major advancements in AI infrastructure, observability, and secure hybrid work platforms.
- Industry
- Networking
- Company size
- 90000+ employees
- Founded
- 1984
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
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