Meet the Team 

We are the Web scale and Service Provider (SP) Product Engineering team responsible for the delivering Cisco’s best high-performance, provider class routers and switches, the Cisco 8000 series. We apply Cisco’s ground-breaking Silicon One ASIC that delivers unmatched performance and density with feature-rich functionality. We are transforming the industry and building a new internet for AI networks and the 5G era, providing a unified, programmable silicon architecture that is the foundation of all Cisco’s future routing and switching products.

Your Impact 

As the Leader of a technical team, you will provide new product and/or ongoing engineering support (including DFM/DFA/DFC/DFFS) for a specific product or group of products from pre-concept commit through EOL. For new products, you will collaborate with design (hardware and mechanical), process, test, and reliability engineering to address problems and ensure cost avoidance and quality at FCS. For sustaining products, you will focus on cost reduction and design related yield improvements.

• Manages the daily activities of a product engineering team (typically manages a mid-sized team)

• He /she reviews, provides input for the design & architecture from DFM, Component technology used, EOL etc.  and influences the design team for optimum selection.

• During NPI’s he/she should provide all technical support required for Proto builds and ensures cost, Quality and delivery targets are met.

• During sustenance, need to manage change management activities & also need to work towards meeting factory and field Quality metrics.

• Drives Value Engineering activities to improve the cost margins during the product life cycle.

• Provides Supply chain continuity & Resiliency support

• Brings together team members from all hardware and supply chain disciplines as needed to ensure that the right solutions are developed and executed.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS+10year of work experience as product or design engineer.

• Very good understanding on electronic product design and architecture.

• Knowledge of PCB design, Stack ups and Allegro.

• Knowledge of Valor and DFM is a Plus.

• Knowledge of PCBA Manufacturing, System Build and NPI process.

• Expected to have good driving capability to work with cross-functional Teams and drive the deliverables to closure

• Some previous supervisory experience is positive.

Preferred Qualifications

• Good understanding of Hardware interfaces – High speed serial interfaces , PCIE, Ethernet, SATA, I2C etc.

• Design lab experimentation / debug (proficiency continuum) / DOE /EFA

• Technical lifecycle management (defect reduction team participation, new component qualification, etc.)

• Assessing CM and supply chain technical capability gaps

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. 

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