Cisco
Networking hardware, security software, collaboration services
ASIC Design Verification Engineer - Uvm
Onsite in Bangalore, India.
About the job
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or other related field.
- 7+ years of related ASIC design verification experience.
- Proficient in ASIC verification using UVM/System Verilog.
- Proficient in verifying sophisticated blocks, clusters and top level for ASIC.
- Experience building test benches from scratch, hands on experience with System Verilog constraints, structures and classes.
- Scripting experience with Perl and/or Python.
- Architect block, cluster and top-level DV environment infrastructure.
- Develop DV infrastructure from scratch.
- Maintain and improve existing DV environments.
- Develop test plans and tests for qualifying design at block, cluster and higher-level environments with mix of constraint random and advised stimulus.
- Ensure complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage.
- Ensure RTL quality with qualifying the design with Gate Level Simulations on netlist.
- Collaborate closely with designers, architects, and software teams to address and debug issues during post-silicon bring-up, ensuring seamless integration and efficient performance.
- Support testing of design in emulation.
- Lead all aspects of and manage the ASIC bring-up process.
- Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of relevant work experience.
- Experience with Forwarding logic/Parsers/P4.
- Experience with Veloce/Palladium/Zebu/HAPS.
- Formal verification (iev/vc formal) knowledge.
- Demonstrated ability on one or more protocols (PCIe, Ethernet, RDMA, TCP).
About the company
Cisco designs and sells networking hardware, software, and services that help organizations connect, protect, and manage data. Its products include networking gear, security solutions, cloud services, and collaboration tools like Webex to support hybrid work. Cisco differentiates itself with a broad, integrated stack—routing and switching, security, cloud, and collaboration—that works together at scale. Its goal is to help customers securely connect people, devices, and applications, enabling reliable communication and digital transformation across enterprises of all sizes.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, California
Founded
1984
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Cisco booked $9.3 billion hyperscaler AI orders in fiscal 2026, up 4.5 times.
- August 12, 2026 guidance targets $72.2 billion to $73.4 billion revenue for fiscal 2027.
- Cisco AI POD for Splunk and the Saudi HUMAIN partnership expand monetizable AI infrastructure.
What critics are saying
- Fiscal 2026 gross margin fell to 66.3%; hardware-heavy AI orders will compress 2027 margins.
- May 2026 layoffs of nearly 4,000 employees signal deeper restructuring and weak legacy growth.
- Arista and hyperscaler in-house networking can bypass Cisco, crippling AI revenue conversion by 2028.
What makes Cisco unique
- Cisco owns the enterprise network, plus Splunk telemetry, security, and collaboration in one stack.
- Cisco Silicon One and Cloud Control unify routing, observability, and agentic AI operations.
- Cisco's channel breadth and installed base keep campus refresh cycles sticky through 2027.
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↑ 0%Cisco Systems trades at 32.1 times earnings, nearly matching Dell Technologies' 31.9 multiple, despite growing revenue just 11.8% over twelve months compared to Dell's 49%. The valuation gap partly reflects Cisco's superior 25.4% operating margin versus Dell's 9.6%. The company's premium also anticipates faster growth ahead. Cisco secured $9.3 billion in AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers in fiscal 2026, 4.5 times the prior year's total, though revenue lagged at roughly $4 billion. For fiscal 2027, Cisco guides revenue between $72.2 billion and $73.4 billion, representing 15% growth. AI infrastructure revenue from hyperscalers is expected to reach $7.5 billion. However, price increases contributed 5 percentage points to Q4 growth and will add 4 to 5 points in fiscal 2027. Rising memory costs and hardware mix are pressuring gross margins.
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Cisco Systems closed fiscal 2026 with record revenue of $63.3bn, but the company's messaging shifted significantly between earnings calls. In August 2025, CEO pitched a major campus switching refresh cycle. By August 2026, the focus moved to hyperscaler AI infrastructure, with orders up triple digits. AI infrastructure for hyperscalers booked $9.3bn of orders in fiscal 2026, roughly 4.5 times the previous year's total. However, this represented only 6% of fiscal 2026 revenue, up from under 2%. Management projects $7.5bn from hyperscalers in fiscal 2027, about a tenth of total revenue. Campus networking remains healthy, with product orders growing 20% year-over-year in fiscal Q4 2026. Wi-Fi 7 comprised over half of wireless orders. The CFO estimates core growth at 10% for fiscal 2027 versus 15% company-wide.
Cisco has launched version 1.0 of Cisco AI POD for Splunk, enabling enterprises to run Splunk's AI capabilities within their own infrastructure. The package combines Cisco compute infrastructure, Nvidia GPU acceleration and Splunk software on Red Hat OpenShift. The system allows customers to deploy tools including AI Assistant and AI Toolkit whilst maintaining control over their OpenShift environment. Cisco shares traded about 1.5% lower at $110.395 on Monday. The move positions Cisco to capture infrastructure demand as enterprises shift AI workloads into production. However, the stock currently trades 48.38% above its GF Value estimate of $74.40, suggesting investors are already pricing in significant execution. Success will depend on whether customers deploy these systems at scale.
Ken Fisher's firm increased its stakes in Cisco Systems and Palo Alto Networks between March and June, according to regulatory filings disclosed in September. Fisher Asset Management's Cisco position rose from 17.3 million to 33.4 million shares, whilst its Palo Alto holdings jumped from 256,661 to 5.8 million shares. The two companies represent different approaches to AI infrastructure security. Cisco combines networking equipment with security software, reporting 28% growth in fiscal Q4 networking revenue to $9.8 billion and 14% growth in security revenue to $2.2 billion. Palo Alto focuses on security platforms, posting 34% revenue growth to $3.41 billion in its fiscal Q4, though it reported a $282 million GAAP net loss partly due to fair-value charges on acquired convertible notes. The filings do not explain Fisher's investment rationale.