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Who You'll Work With

Cisco is well known for developing ground-breaking products in short time intervals. To support new product development at an exciting pace the Acacia PD team is challenged to design, develop, and build ASIC designs.

The work is essential for supporting the increasing demands of hybrid work environments and ensuring reliable, high-capacity network connections.

The engineers work with technologies that involve the latest submicron technologies. An ASIC PD engineer would be involved in developing and optimizing physical floorplan and their implementation.

What You'll Do

The Physical Design Engineer Co-op will perform one or more of the following tasks while working on Cisco's elite optical communication products. The Co-op will be assigned relevant work assignments to challenge them according to their current level of experience and capability.

The Co-op may find themselves working in the following areas:

• Work with Front-End teams to understand the design architecture to ensure optimal physical implementation
• Gate level netlist synthesis (physical synthesis)
• Physical implementation ( floorplanning , placement, CTS, routing)
• Power, performance and area optimization of design
• Static Timing analysis and signoff closure
• Physical verification and signoff closure
• EMIR analysis and signoff closure

Who You Are

• Good interpersonal and organizational skills
• Passionate about engineering and enjoy working with hardware AND software
• Likes to be challenged to understand systems and figure out ways to break it
• Automation and programming minded
• Self-motivated, able to work independently when required
• Collaborative and team-focused with the strong desire to learn and grow
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate program in computer science, electrical engineering, or related program
• Must be able to be onsite in Maynard, MA two days a week
• Knowledge of the design cycle from RTL to GDSII
• Understanding of Static Timing Analysis, timing closure and design constraints
• Knowledge in block level synthesis, place and route, timing closure, PnR and signoff tools and their capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in VLSI design, and more specifically in ASIC physical design and verification
• Interest and preferably academic experience in deep submicron CMOS technologies
• Scripting experience with perl , tcl , python and/or shell, a plus
• Analytical and creative, with well-developed and tenacious problem-solving skills
• Previous internship experience

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (40 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box!

But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

We Are Cisco: where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference. We embrace digital and help our customers implement change in their businesses. Some may think we’re only about hardware, but we’re also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. Our culture allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure—if you learn from it. So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world-changing? Be you, with us!