ASIC Verification Engineer — Acacia (Hybrid)

Job Title

ASIC Verification Engineer — Acacia (Hybrid)

Role Summary

Senior technical contributor and verification lead working on next-generation 100G–1.6T coherent optical communication ASICs within Cisco's Acacia team. Responsible for ensuring design quality through comprehensive verification strategies and technical leadership across ASIC projects.

This is a hybrid role requiring three days per week onsite at Cisco’s Maynard, MA office. The role requires independent operation, cross-functional collaboration, and strong written and verbal communication.

Experience Level

Senior-level role. Typically requires 7+ years of related ASIC verification experience and demonstrated technical leadership in complex verification projects.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include leading verification efforts and improving verification processes for complex ASICs.

• Lead development of detailed verification test plans and verification strategies.
• Design and lead development of verification test benches and environments.
• Apply advanced verification techniques to complex designs and ensure coverage goals are met.
• Supervise and coordinate execution of test plans across the team.
• Review verification code, coverage metrics, and results; drive corrective actions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and training to verification engineers.
• Collaborate with design, firmware, and system teams to resolve issues and integrate verification approaches.
• Drive process and tool improvements to increase verification effectiveness and efficiency.

Requirements

Concise list of required skills and preferred additional expertise.

Must-have

• Practical experience with modern ASIC verification methodologies and tools.
• Knowledge of object-oriented verification methodologies.
• Experience programming in C++.
• Experience with SystemVerilog/UVM and SystemC.
• Experience with verification scripting/programming and automation tools.
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical projects and mentor teammates.
• Ability to work on-site in Maynard, MA several days per week (hybrid schedule).

Nice-to-have

• Experience with C++ templates and advanced C++ idioms.
• Experience with DSP algorithms and modulation techniques (for example, QAM).
• Lab silicon bring-up and silicon validation experience.
• Experience with Formal Verification tools (e.g., Jasper, VCFormal).
• Experience leading ASIC technical teams or in-house IP development.

Education Requirements

Minimum qualifications in the posting: Bachelor's degree plus 8 years of related experience, Master's degree plus 6 years, PhD plus 3 years, or equivalent related work experience. The posting does not specify required fields of study or certifications.

About the Company

Company: Cisco Systems

Headquarters: San Jose, CA, United States

Cisco Systems is a global technology company that designs and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, software, and services. It provides enterprise and service-provider networking, security, collaboration, and optical communications solutions (including Acacia Communications technologies for high-speed optical interconnects).