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ASIC verification engineer jobs are a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with backgrounds in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science. Most roles involve SystemVerilog, UVM, and functional verification, skills built directly in U.S. degree programs. STEM OPT extension eligibility gives you up to three years of work authorization, which many semiconductor employers actively plan around.
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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 Silicon One team 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 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.
Your Impact
As an ASIC Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing Cisco’s revolutionary data center solutions. You will collaborate closely with verification engineers, designers, hardware, and other cross-functional teams to verify the ASIC in simulation, in emulation, and during ASIC bring-up to help guarantee seamless integration and optimal performance of Cisco’s hardware platforms. You will:
- Maintain existing DV environments and enhance them
- Construct test bench including scoreboard, agents, sequencers, and monitors for new blocks
- Write test plan, develop test cases, debug regression failures and drive to module verification closure
- Ensure complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Meet one of the following (completed within the past 3 years or expected to be completed within the next 12 months):
- A Master's degree with 0 years of work experience;
- A Bachelor's degree with 2 years of work experience.
- Qualifying education and work experience should be in ASIC Engineering, Verification or a related field.
- Experience with System Verilog and UVM methodology.
- Experience with scripting using Perl and/or Python.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience using UVM and System Verilog for ASIC verification and verifying complex blocks and/or clusters within ASICs.
- Experience with functional coverage and constrained random DV environments.
- Experience in verifying complex blocks, clusters and top level for SoC.
- Experience with Veloce/HAPS.
- Experience building test benches from scratch, including experience in System Verilog constraints, structures, and classes.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
Individual 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.
U.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.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-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
- Exempt 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)
- 80 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
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees 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:
- .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
- 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
- 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
- Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For 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.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$125,700.00 - $203,100.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$111,700.00 - $180,800.00
- For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
INTRODUCTION
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 Silicon One team 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 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.
Your Impact
As an ASIC Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing Cisco’s revolutionary data center solutions. You will collaborate closely with verification engineers, designers, hardware, and other cross-functional teams to verify the ASIC in simulation, in emulation, and during ASIC bring-up to help guarantee seamless integration and optimal performance of Cisco’s hardware platforms. You will:
- Maintain existing DV environments and enhance them
- Construct test bench including scoreboard, agents, sequencers, and monitors for new blocks
- Write test plan, develop test cases, debug regression failures and drive to module verification closure
- Ensure complete verification coverage through implementation and review of code and functional coverage.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Meet one of the following (completed within the past 3 years or expected to be completed within the next 12 months):
- A Master's degree with 0 years of work experience;
- A Bachelor's degree with 2 years of work experience.
- Qualifying education and work experience should be in ASIC Engineering, Verification or a related field.
- Experience with System Verilog and UVM methodology.
- Experience with scripting using Perl and/or Python.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience using UVM and System Verilog for ASIC verification and verifying complex blocks and/or clusters within ASICs.
- Experience with functional coverage and constrained random DV environments.
- Experience in verifying complex blocks, clusters and top level for SoC.
- Experience with Veloce/HAPS.
- Experience building test benches from scratch, including experience in System Verilog constraints, structures, and classes.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
Individual 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.
U.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.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- Non-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
- Exempt 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)
- 80 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
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
Employees 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:
- .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
- 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
- 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
- Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For 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.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$125,700.00 - $203,100.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$111,700.00 - $180,800.00
- For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as an Asic Verification Engineer
Lead with UVM and SystemVerilog proficiency
ASIC verification teams filter candidates by specific technical skills. Listing UVM, SystemVerilog, and experience with testbench architecture upfront tells hiring managers you can contribute immediately, which reduces hesitation around OPT paperwork and onboarding timelines.
Target semiconductor and fabless chip companies directly
Companies like Qualcomm, Intel, AMD, Broadcom, and Marvell have established OPT and H-1B visa sponsorship pipelines for verification engineers. Focusing your search on semiconductor employers significantly increases your odds of landing a role with sponsorship continuity.
Emphasize your STEM OPT extension eligibility
Electrical engineering and computer engineering degrees qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Mentioning this upfront in applications reassures employers that your work authorization extends well beyond the initial 12-month window, reducing their perceived hiring risk.
Showcase verification IP or academic tape-out projects
Hiring managers respond to evidence of real verification work. If you built a UVM testbench, verified an FPGA-based design, or contributed to a class tape-out project, include specifics. This demonstrates hands-on experience that a course list alone cannot convey.
Start your job search before OPT begins
ASIC verification hiring cycles move slowly at larger semiconductor firms. Apply three to four months before your OPT start date so offers and onboarding can align with your authorization window, avoiding gaps that complicate your status.
Engage verification-focused engineering recruiters early
Specialized semiconductor and EDA recruiters often have direct relationships with hiring managers at chip companies. Connecting with them early in your search expands your reach beyond publicly posted roles and surfaces opportunities where OPT candidates are already welcome.
Asic Verification Engineer OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do ASIC verification engineer roles commonly sponsor OPT students?
Yes. Semiconductor companies with active hardware verification teams regularly hire F-1 OPT students, particularly from electrical and computer engineering programs. ASIC verification is a specialized skill set with a talent shortage, so employers at companies like Qualcomm, Intel, and Broadcom are accustomed to working with OPT work authorization. You can browse OPT-eligible ASIC verification roles on Migrate Mate.
Is an ASIC verification engineer role STEM OPT eligible?
In most cases, yes. If your degree is in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science and your employer is enrolled in E-Verify, you qualify to apply for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. That gives you up to 36 months of work authorization total, which covers most H-1B sponsorship timelines. Confirm your specific degree code qualifies by checking the official STEM Designated Degree Program List on the DHS website.
What technical skills should I highlight to improve my chances as an OPT candidate?
Focus on UVM methodology, SystemVerilog, functional coverage, assertion-based verification, and simulation tools like VCS, Xcelium, or Questa. Employers weigh these skills heavily in initial screening. Candidates who can demonstrate testbench development experience, constrained random stimulus generation, or prior exposure to coverage closure move faster through hiring pipelines, which matters when your OPT window is finite.
Can I work at an ASIC verification engineering role at a startup on OPT?
Yes, with one important constraint. Your employer must be a legitimate U.S. business with a valid Employer Identification Number. For STEM OPT extension purposes, they also need to be enrolled in E-Verify. Many semiconductor startups and fabless chip design companies meet both requirements. If a startup cannot confirm E-Verify enrollment, your initial 12-month OPT period still applies, but the STEM extension would not be available.
How early should I start applying for ASIC verification jobs before my OPT starts?
Apply three to four months before your OPT start date. Semiconductor companies often have multi-stage interview processes involving technical screens, logic design exercises, and panel interviews that take six to ten weeks from first contact to offer. Starting early gives you time to complete the process without rushing or accepting a mismatched role out of urgency. Use Migrate Mate to filter for roles open to OPT candidates.