ASIC Design Verification Engineer II (Intern) - United States
Cisco5 Locations$44k – $185kPosted 30 March 2026
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Job Description
Please note this posting is to advertise potential job opportunities. This exact role may not be open today but could open in the near future. When you apply, a Cisco representative may contact you directly if a relevant position opens.
Applications accepted until further notice.
Meet the Team
The ASIC Group works closely with other development teams within Cisco, including marketing, system hardware, software, product engineering, and manufacturing. Through this collaboration, members of our group play a major role in the process of defining, developing and bringing new products to market across Cisco's product line.
Open-minded, driven, diverse and deeply creative people at Cisco design the hardware that makes the internet work. Bring your knowledge of computers and networking and take it to a new level in any one of the following product categories including: cloud, social, mobile/wireless, video, VoIP, big data, collaboration, web, Internet of Things, routing, switching, IPv6, data center, HPC, TelePresence and many more. Your work will affect billions globally.
Your Impact
The ASIC Design Verification Intern Engineer will be a member of a team working on next generation 100G-1T coherent optical communications products. This role is focused on verifying highly-complex ASICs that are used in these next-generation telecom systems. The engineer in this role uses sophisticated verification techniques to complete advanced individual contributions to the projects. There are opportunities to develop process improvements for the team and to coordinate with other engineers within the engineering community to add value to the ASIC projects.
This engineer must be a fast-learning, self-motivated effective person who is able to operate in a fast-paced, dynamic and highly technical environment. A successful candidate will be energetic, collaborative and passionate about learning how to deliver the most advanced high speed optical products in the world. Knowledge of object-oriented verification methodologies is required.
Develop detailed and comprehensive test plans
Develop verification test benches
Timely execution of test plans
Assist with chip level design tradeoffs by working with design engineers
Participate in review of design verification coding and coverage metrics
Participate and assist in FPGA emulation efforts
Work collaboratively with team to develop & incorporate latest technologies & processes
Minimum Qualifications
Currently enrolled in a graduate degree program. Relevant fields include: Computer Architecture, Logic Design, VLSI, Programming, Signal and Power Integrity, and DFx.
Knowledge of the latest ASIC verification methodologies, tools and scripting/programming languages
Knowledge of SystemVerilog/UVM, SystemC
Knowledge of C and/or C
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of DSP algorithms and modulation techniques such as QAM
Lab silicon validation experience
Knowledge of Formal Verification methodologies and tools such as Jasper
Ability to work collaboratively across business groups
Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
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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