{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"1ad170cbe4e41b8857eacddd","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/1ad170cbe4e41b8857eacddd","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/1ad170cbe4e41b8857eacddd","title":"Technical Program Manager- PDK/IP","description":"The application window is expected to close on: 09/11/2026Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.\n\nMeet the Team:\nThe Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms—like Silicon One—are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world.\n\nYour Impact:\nWe are looking for a motivated technical leader to join the CAD/Methodology team. You will own Infrastructure engagement and alignment including the arrangement/QA for Vendor IPs, standard cells and Process Design Kits (PDKs)—from early architecture through tape-out and into post-silicon bring-up and debug.\n\nDrive PDK updates by resolving technical issues, ensuring timely standard cell development. Collaborate with PDK engineers to fix bugs and enhance stability through effective validation. Shape technical strategy, proactively manage risks, align cross-functional priorities, and set direction.\nSuccess depends as much on clarity and follow-through as on depth in flows and tools. You will be the primary key stakeholder bridging between Cisco projects leads and all supply chain dependencies such as IP/std cells vendors and external foundries.\nResponsibilities include keeping schedules, aligning technical requirements, and aligning delivery commitments so IP and PDK land on time, qualified, and usable in Cisco projects.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n\n10+ years in physical design enablement, CAD, or equivalent, with prior experience with ASIC flows, physical design methodologies, and foundry processes.\nPrior experience in communication and program management.\nPrior experience with multi-party threads, writing summaries for executives and engineers, and keep pre-silicon and post-silicon stakeholders aligned.\nPrior experience with IP installation, PDK enablement, and technology file management.\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\nExperience Scripting (e.g., Python, TCL) for automation; comfortable with process nodes and PDK structures in real programs.\nExperience with timing models.\nExperience with EDA tools (e.g., Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens) for physical design and verification.\nWhy Cisco?\n\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\n\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\n\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.\nIndividual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\n\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\n\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\n\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.\n\nThe applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:\n\nNew York City Metro Area:\n$186,900.00 - $307,800.00\n\nNon-Metro New York state& Washington state:\n$166,300.00 - $274,100.00\n\nFor quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.\n** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.","company":"Cisco","rawCompany":"cisco","city":"San Jose","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-08T11:32:07.401Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.09","title":"Information Technology Project Managers","slug":"information-technology-project-managers"},{"code":"17-2061.00","title":"Computer Hardware Engineers","slug":"computer-hardware-engineers"},{"code":"17-2072.00","title":"Electronics Engineers, Except Computer","slug":"electronics-engineers-except-computer"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"334413","title":"Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing","slug":"semiconductor-and-related-device-manufacturing"},{"code":"334111","title":"Electronic Computer Manufacturing","slug":"electronic-computer-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Technical Program Manager- PDK/IP","description":"The application window is expected to close on: 09/11/2026Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.\n\nMeet the Team:\nThe Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms—like Silicon One—are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world.\n\nYour Impact:\nWe are looking for a motivated technical leader to join the CAD/Methodology team. You will own Infrastructure engagement and alignment including the arrangement/QA for Vendor IPs, standard cells and Process Design Kits (PDKs)—from early architecture through tape-out and into post-silicon bring-up and debug.\n\nDrive PDK updates by resolving technical issues, ensuring timely standard cell development. Collaborate with PDK engineers to fix bugs and enhance stability through effective validation. Shape technical strategy, proactively manage risks, align cross-functional priorities, and set direction.\nSuccess depends as much on clarity and follow-through as on depth in flows and tools. You will be the primary key stakeholder bridging between Cisco projects leads and all supply chain dependencies such as IP/std cells vendors and external foundries.\nResponsibilities include keeping schedules, aligning technical requirements, and aligning delivery commitments so IP and PDK land on time, qualified, and usable in Cisco projects.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n\n10+ years in physical design enablement, CAD, or equivalent, with prior experience with ASIC flows, physical design methodologies, and foundry processes.\nPrior experience in communication and program management.\nPrior experience with multi-party threads, writing summaries for executives and engineers, and keep pre-silicon and post-silicon stakeholders aligned.\nPrior experience with IP installation, PDK enablement, and technology file management.\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\nExperience Scripting (e.g., Python, TCL) for automation; comfortable with process nodes and PDK structures in real programs.\nExperience with timing models.\nExperience with EDA tools (e.g., Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens) for physical design and verification.\nWhy Cisco?\n\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\n\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\n\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.\nIndividual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\n\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\n\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\n\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.\n\nThe applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:\n\nNew York City Metro Area:\n$186,900.00 - $307,800.00\n\nNon-Metro New York state& Washington state:\n$166,300.00 - $274,100.00\n\nFor quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.\n** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.","datePosted":"2026-08-08T11:32:07.401Z","dateModified":"2026-08-08T11:32:07.401Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Cisco","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"San Jose","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"1ad170cbe4e41b8857eacddd"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/1ad170cbe4e41b8857eacddd"}}