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57 openings in hardware & semiconductors in San Jose, CA, from Cisco, Cadence, Broadcom and Micron. Updated November 2, 5:17 AM ET.

  • 57openings
  • 7employers
  • $200,000typical pay midpoint
  • 0%remote

  • Sr. Staff SWE - Splunk Security Core AI Agentic SOC (hybrid)

    Cisco

    Shape technical direction and lead ambiguous, cross-team Agentic SOC capabilities from concept through measurable production improvement.

    • San Jose, CA; San Francisco, CA
    • Hybrid
    • $214,100–$309,800 a year

  • Senior CAD Engineer - Layout/Verification/Simulation

    Micron

    Develop, enhance, and debug CAD tools, automation, and flows for custom IC design, layout, simulation, and verification.

    • Boise, ID; San Jose, CA
    • $104,000–$221,000 a year

  • Principal Product Engineer (Analog Design Automation)

    Cadence

    We are looking for a Product Engineer to drive the development and customer adoption of Analog Design automation flows in Virtuoso, including AI Driven optimization, parasitic‑aware design…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $136,500–$253,500 a year

  • Quantum Product Engineer

    Cadence

    The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in quantum engineering, specifically in working with cross-functional teams to develop integrated Quantum Design Automation solutions.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $154,000–$286,000 a year

  • Product Engineer (Analog Circuit Design)

    Cadence

    The Product Engineer will be a Technical Evangelist for our Analog Design Environment (ADE) tools and Agentic workflows related to the circuit design which provide a powerful interactive…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $114,800–$213,200 a year

  • Director, Product Management — Custom & Analog Design Solutions

    Cadence

    We are hiring a Director, Product Management to own the strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market for a product line within CPG's custom and analog design portfolio.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $178,500–$331,500 a year

  • Principal Product Engineer – Virtuoso Backend Flows

    Cadence

    We are looking for a Product Engineer to drive the development and customer adoption of advanced backend design flows in Cadence Virtuoso for leading-edge process nodes.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $136,500–$253,500 a year

  • Product Engineer (3D IC, Heterogeneous Integration & Advanced Packaging)

    Cadence

    As Product Engineer, you are responsible for driving the definition, early deployment, and broader adoption of the Cadence Virtuoso Heterogeneous Integration technologies.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $140,000–$260,000 a year

  • Senior ASIC Engineer - Post Silicon Validation

    Cisco

    In this role as a Post-Silicon Validation Engineer, you will be responsible for: Planning and setting up Silicon Bring-up infrastructure, including system boot, initialization, and Power-On…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $167,700–$245,200 a year

  • ASIC Failure Analysis Engineer (Onsite)

    Cisco

    This role will require high level of collaboration and interaction with Product Test Engineering, Design Engineering, Quality Engineering, Assembly Engineering and Foundry Engineering teams.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $155,000–$222,600 a year

  • ASIC Test Engineer (Onsite)

    Cisco

    Drive qualification, reliability, and RMA testing activities for Silicon One ASIC products using ATE platforms and silicon debug methodologies.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $167,700–$245,200 a year

  • Leader, Thermal Hardware Engineering

    Cisco

    Strategic Leadership : Lead a global team of thermal component engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, mentorship, and career development.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $194,600–$285,700 a year

  • Leader, Semiconductor Product Engineering

    Cisco

    Lead an engineering team to deliver state-of-the-art semiconductor wafer products meeting Cisco quality and performance standards

    • San Jose, CA; Maynard, MA +2
    • Hybrid
    • $194,600–$285,700 a year

  • Principal Hardware Systems Architect - ASIC (Silicon One) Ecosystem Integration & Product Strategy (Hybrid)

    Cisco

    We are seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer to serve as a key technical authority within our networking organization.

    • San Jose, CA
    • Hybrid
    • $233,900–$330,400 a year

  • Senior CAD Engineer – Physical Verification

    Micron

    Develop and maintain physical verification tools, flows, and methodologies for DRAM, HBM, NAND, and emerging memory products.

    • Boise, ID; San Jose, CA
    • $104,000–$221,000 a year

  • Principal Physical Design Engineer, STA

    Broadcom

    In this highly visible role, you will be responsible for ensuring that our high-performance, next-generation ASICs meet their aggressive performance targets and tight timing requirements…

    • San Jose, CA
    • 12+ yrs

  • Physical Design Engineer

    Broadcom

    Broadcom's ASIC Products Division (APD) is looking for a motivated Physical Design Engineer (NCG) to join our Physical Design team.

    • San Jose, CA
    • 2+ yrs

  • Principal Physical Design Engineer

    Broadcom

    Broadcom's ASIC Products Division (APD) is looking for a Principal Physical Design Engineer to lead physical design implementation tasks for next-generation high-performance networking…

    • San Jose, CA
    • 12+ yrs

  • Physical Design Engineer

    Broadcom

    Work on Design Implementation activities related to place and route and/ or timing closure – floor-planning, partitioning, placement, clock tree synthesis, route, timing analysis, timing…

    • San Jose, CA; Fort Collins-, CO
    • 12+ yrs

  • Hardware Product Line Manager, SASE & Security

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    Contribute to multi-year SASE and Security hardware portfolio planning and HW convergence, including derivative platform strategy across EdgeConnect, SSR, SD-Branch, and SRX and the…

    • San Jose, CA

  • Silicon Validation Engineer

    Cisco

    Develop and maintain ASIC APIs and SDKs in C and C++, delivering clean, scalable updates that support emulation, bring-up, and ongoing feature work.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $167,700–$245,200 a year

  • Hardware Engineer I (Full Time) - United States

    Cisco

    Assist with the design and validation of a server sub-system. Ensure design meets functional specs. Work independently on assigned tasks.

    • San Jose, CA; Austin, TX +2
    • Hybrid
    • $95,800–$139,700 a year

  • Hardware Engineer I (Full-Time) - United States

    Cisco

    You will change the product development from the lowest levels of circuit design to large system design and see your contribution all the way through to high volume manufacturing.

    • San Jose, CA; Austin, TX +1
    • Hybrid
    • $95,800–$139,700 a year

  • MTS Package engineer - ASIC package design, logic integration and design rules

    Micron

    Partner with System Architects and engineering teams to define package architecture, connectivity, and electrical requirements .

    • Boise, ID; San Jose, CA
    • $143,000–$398,000 a year

  • Business Solutions Advisor - Greater Silicon Valley Market

    Bank of America

    Internal employees who are currently working from home are still eligible to apply. However, if selected for the role, you may be required to work onsite in accordance with the workplace…

    • San Jose, CA; Milpitas, CA
    • $26–$34.67 an hour

  • Principal Hardware Engineer

    Cisco

    Define and drive the end-to-end quality strategy for next generation hyperscale switching, routing, wireless access points, AI servers, and optical platforms, from architecture and…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $233,900–$330,400 a year

  • Hardware Project Manager

    Cisco

    Lead NPI project and program management activities across hardware engineering, product management, operations, marketing, account teams, EPM, power, thermal, and other partner…

    • San Jose, CA; Rtp, NC
    • $138,100–$196,500 a year

  • ASIC Technical Leader- CAD

    Cisco

    As a technical leader, you will own and drive end-to-end DFT flow architecture, building and maintaining scalable CAD infrastructure that spans the entire design cycle from RTL and insertion…

    • San Jose, CA
    • Hybrid
    • $186,900–$267,700 a year

  • ASIC Engineer- CAD

    Cisco

    Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer engineering and 5+ years of ASIC Design experience or Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 3+ years of experience, or PhD + 0…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $155,000–$222,600 a year

  • ASIC DFT Technical Leader- MBIST

    Cisco

    Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.

    • San Jose, CA; Austin, TX
    • Hybrid
    • $214,100–$309,800 a year

  • ASIC DFT Engineer

    Cisco

    You will work with Front-end RTL teams, backend physical design teams to understand chip architecture and drive DFT requirements early in the design cycle.

    • Austin, TX; San Jose, CA
    • Hybrid
    • $139,300–$203,600 a year

  • ASIC Technical Leader- RTL

    Cisco

    You will be a key member of the Silicon One development organization, collaborating closely with Front-end RTL and backend physical design teams to gain a deep understanding of chip…

    • San Jose, CA; Austin, TX
    • Hybrid
    • $186,900–$267,700 a year

  • Senior ASIC Engineer

    Cisco

    Drives the definition, architecture and design and verification of high performance ASICs for AI Networking

    • San Jose, CA
    • $167,700–$245,200 a year

  • Senior Physical Design Engineer

    Broadcom

    Full-Flow Implementation: Lead block-level and top-level implementation from floorplanning to GDSII stream-out using Cadence Innovus

    • San Jose, CA
    • 8+ yrs

  • Hardware Applications Engineer

    Broadcom

    Broadcom is seeking a motivated Hardware Applications Engineer to join our AI Networking Infrastructure team on-site, working with Enterprise, high-growth Frontier Labs, and Hyperscalers.

    • San Jose, CA
    • 2+ yrs

  • Principal Physical Verification Engineer

    Broadcom

    Principal Physical Design Engineer — ASIC Products Division (APD)

    • San Jose, CA
    • 12+ yrs

  • Mechanical Engineer Supporting ASIC Test

    Broadcom

    A mechanical engineering position responsible for developing thermal management and robust socketing solutions for test and validation PCBs for Broadcom ASIC products targeted at hyperscale…

    • Fort Collins-, CO; San Jose, CA
    • 8+ yrs

  • CMOS SerDes or High-speed I/O, Lead Analog IC Design Engineer

    Cadence

    The Lead Analog IC Design Engineer is responsible for designing and developing analog and mixed-signal circuits- from initial concept and specification through final verification- to ensure…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $119,000–$221,000 a year

  • Power Electronics Engineer

    Analog Devices

    Characterize power hardware: Test DC-DC converters, power modules, and semiconductor devices using power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscopes, current probes, and temperature…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $100,266–$137,892 a year

  • Design Verification Engineer

    Broadcom

    The ASIC Product Division at Broadcom, a leading supplier of state-of-the-art SoC and embedded IP, is looking for qualified individuals to work in SoC and IP development programs.

    • San Jose, CA
    • 12+ yrs

  • Physical Design and Signoff, Sr. Principal AE

    Cadence

    Be part of team of Application Engineers providing technical support to Cadence customers in the areas of Backend Digital Design Implementation and Signoff including Place and Route, Design…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $148,400–$275,600 a year

  • Lead Product Engineer

    Cadence

    Full-chip and block-level implementation from RTL to Signoff, including place-and-route, timing closure, physical verification, power analysis, and optimization.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $119,000–$221,000 a year

  • Chip Lead / Physical Design Director

    Cadence

    Serve as the technical leader for Physical Design and Design for Test teams, driving complex customer SoC projects from RTL or Netlist to GDS.

    • Austin, TX; San Jose, CA

  • Sr Principal HW Design Engineer-Emulation Acceleration System Platform

    Cadence

    Responsible for architecture, design, bring-up, and sustain of hardware system platform. Continuously develop and apply technical domain expertise in Hardware Engineering.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $178,500–$331,500 a year

  • Principal Analog IC Design Engineer, High Speed SerDes

    Cadence

    The Principal Analog IC Designer is responsible for the design and development of analog/mixed signal IC circuit blocks from initial concept/specification through final verification of…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $136,500–$253,500 a year

  • R&D Staff Hardware Engineer

    Broadcom

    As a Staff Hardware Engineer, you will design, develop, and deliver Ultra High-performance electronic products.

    • San Jose, CA
    • 8+ yrs

  • Sr Custom Silicon Sales Executive

    Cadence

    Lead, manage, develop and grow ASIC design services and silicon fulfillment business across the defined territory.

    • Burlington, MA; San Jose, CA
    • 15+ yrs

  • ASIC Package Design Engineer

    Broadcom

    Broadcom is seeking an experienced IC package-design engineer for complex flip-chip-BGA packages for industry-leading ASICs with high-speed SerDes and very-high-power delivery needs.

    • San Jose, CA; Austin, TX +1
    • 12+ yrs

  • Staff Reliability Hardware Engineer

    Analog Devices

    Design and develop high power burn-in systems and hardware including custom burn-in boards (BIBs) and test fixtures.

    • San Jose, CA
    • $130,168–$188,490 a year

  • Principal Digital Verification Engineer

    Analog Devices

    As a Principal Design Verification Engineer at Analog Devices, you will be recognized as an in-house expert providing technical leadership in developing verification strategies for our most…

    • Austin, TX; San Jose, CA
    • $157,080–$227,460 a year

  • ASIC Design Engineer

    Broadcom

    Would you like to conceive and develop leadership silicon technology for datacenter and other cloud operators? Come join the team creating technology that fuels AI, and cloud mega data…

    • Irvine, CA; San Jose, CA
    • 8+ yrs

  • Mixed Signal IP - Senior Program Manager

    Cadence

    We are looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager who will be responsible for the overall coordination of R&D Development Projects and Key Customer Engagements within the Design IP…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $161,000–$299,000 a year

  • Principal Hardware Engineer

    Broadcom

    As a Principal Hardware Engineer, you will be the technical lead responsible for a design team developing and delivering ultra-high-performance electronic products.

    • San Jose, CA
    • 12+ yrs

  • R&D Hardware Engineer

    Broadcom

    As a Hardware Engineer, you will design, develop, and deliver Ultra High-performance electronic products. In addition, you may provide technical leadership to a small design team.

    • San Jose, CA
    • 5+ yrs

  • Signal Integrity Engineer

    Broadcom

    The ASIC Products Division at Broadcom has developed some of the most complex IC solutions and technologies over the last two decades.

    • San Jose, CA
    • 12+ yrs

  • CST Application Engineer Intern - Silicon

    Cadence

    Are you currently enrolled in a STEM, electrical engineering, or computer engineering program and seeking an exciting summer 2027 internship with a leading Silicon Valley technology company?…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $28.60–$53.12 an hour
    Internship

  • Lead Software Engineer: AI for Hardware Verification

    Cadence

    Design and develop AI-enabled software components for emulation and prototyping workflows, balancing reliability, maintainability, security, latency, cost, and integration with existing…

    • San Jose, CA
    • $119,000–$221,000 a year

Hiring snapshot: Hardware & Chips in San Jose, CA

USA Jobs 24 lists 57 Hardware & Chips openings in San Jose, CA today from 7 employers. Cisco (18), Cadence (16) and Broadcom (15) have the most openings. 68% of these listings publish a pay range, and the typical midpoint of a yearly range is about $200,000. Roles that state an experience level ask for a median of 8 years, and the most common band is 8+ years. 2% are open to entry-level candidates or interns. 16% are hybrid. The skills employers mention most are Python (49%), RTL design (21%), Linux (19%) and CAD (16%). Common job titles include Product Engineer, Physical Design Engineer, Hardware Engineer and CAD Engineer.

Role mix

Most requested skills

Experience asked for

  • Entry level (0–1 yrs)2%
  • 2–4 years12%
  • 5–7 years29%
  • 8+ years57%

Worked out by USA Jobs 24 from 57 live openings on employers' own careers sites, November 2, 5:17 AM ET. Shares are of all openings unless stated; pay is the midpoint of advertised yearly ranges.