ASIC Engineering Digital Designer/ Leader ( digital design, FSM, CPU sub-systems, complex SOCs, FPGA validation | 8-12 Years | Pune) at 555 Cisco Systems International B.V.

Cisco’s Client Optics Group is hiring a Digital Design Lead to provide technical leadership for digital logic in silicon photonics and Co-Packaged Optics. The role owns the full ASIC/SoC lifecycle, including RTL design of CPU subsystems and data-path interfaces, verification, physical design, DFT, synthesis, timing closure, FPGA prototyping, and post-silicon validation. The position requires a bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical or electronics engineering, 8–12 years of industry experience, and expertise in high-speed optical interconnects, SerDes, ASIC/SoC design flows, and cross-functional collaboration.