Hardware Engineering Architect jobs at Cisco in United States, San Jose

The application deadline is being extended, expected to close August 29th, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your Impact

You will engage and drive the teams working on Design for Reliability. You will build and innovate in data analytics to enable faster quality through AI/ML data models. You will plan and develop test teams to drive FA and Qualification activity.

Responsibilities

• Plan strategic, scalable engagement with Reliability Services and Equipment providers with respect to Silicon One Product roadmap.
• Support and work with the design team to understand and define reliability requirements of products.
• Conduct design review and close loops with the design team to fix design issues affecting Q& R.
• Define and ensure process for ORM is implemented and effective.
• Engage qualification failures to RCCA using structured problem-solving methods (Cause and Effect diagrams, 8D and 5-Whys ) with a multi-functional team to diagnose, resolve, and prevent future problems. Recommend and manage failure analyses of quality failure to root cause. Work in conjunctions with teams to set up methodology and equipment for dynamic FA.
• To improve ongoing quality, identify and minimize ATE/CFT to system test coverage test gaps. Make sure sensors are used to optimum capability at all test steps and used for system characterization and parametric testing to enable improved quality and reliability monitoring. Come up with new ML test techniques to improve RCCA and prediction.
• Coach, mentor, and grow junior engineers to build a strong, resilient technical team
• Clearly present technical updates, risk assessments, and progress to leadership and multi-functional stakeholders
• Continuously assess and refine development methodologies, adopting ground breaking tools and technologies to improve efficiency
• Work with external foundry partners, IP vendors, and strategic customers to align on expectations and resolve critical issues
• Proactively identify project risks and implement mitigation plans throughout the product development lifecycle

Minimum Qualifications

• Masters/PHD or equivalent experience in Engineering, Semiconductor/Quality, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant field with customer-facing skills and experiences
• 10+ years in a comparable role for semiconductor quality, Customer Quality, Reliability Engineering, Failure Analysis
• Experience in Product & Test Engineering for the semiconductor industry.
• In-depth knowledge of semiconductor device & package fail mechanisms/symptoms
• Multiple roles a plus

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on skills in Quality tools and methodologies i.e. Is/Is-Not, Fault Tree Analysis, Fishbone, 5-why, 8D, statistics and structured problem-solving techniques.
• Strong technical problem solving and hands-on skills in quality tools and methodologies.
• Excellent ability to manage both internal and external dynamic environments and circumstances through influence and negotiation skills to respond to challenging information and situations.
• Excellent communication, technical writing and presentation skills.
• Candidate should have a solid quality / engineering background, along with good teamwork and interpersonal skills across worldwide time zones.

• 8+ years' working with the design, development, and/or deployment of enterprise software with a degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field
• Experience building and deploying cloud native software, preferably with AWS
• Experience working with REST APIs, Kubernetes, source control, and developing autoscaling microservices
• Experience with security frameworks, standards, and/or regulations (such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP)

• 5+ years as a Security Architect, Compliance Architect, or similar roles with a focus on security and compliance
• Expertise in (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.) Cloud Security, Compliance, and securing cloud-native applications
• Programming experience with languages such as Golang (preferred), Java, Python or other programming language
• Experience with security compliance audits, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP
• Experience with React (preferred), Angular or other front end frameworks
• Experience with regulatory reporting and working with regulatory bodies
• Experience with building or consuming APIs for Data Analytics system. Experience with GraphQL, API Gateways, Service Mesh, optimizing SQL Queries, and Kafka streams
• Secure software development expertise and solid foundation in DevSecOps principles. Familiarity with container security, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures
• Experience in security risk management, vulnerability assessment, and remediation
• Experience with security technologies such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, encryption, IAM, and data loss prevention (DLP)
• Adept at communicating clearly to share and summarize information to others concisely

The application window is expected to close on: 8/28/2025.

NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

• Act as Cisco’s domain authority for high-speed digital devices, guiding internal and external technical partners in the selection, validation, and qualification of components for Cisco products.
• Analyze and influence vendor technology roadmaps in support of Cisco product development requirements.
• Support supply chain and quality teams with technical expertise for supplier and component evaluations.
• Lead investigations and end-to-end failure analysis for components and system issues, working with vendors to define, implement, and verify corrective and preventive actions (8D, RCA, etc.).
• Evaluate and supervise vendor qualification/reliability testing including HTOL, ELFR, LU, and ESD.

• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields.
• 5+ years experience in high-speed digital system/board design OR Field Application Engineering with devices such as PHYs, Retimers, PCIe bridges, CPUs, FPGAs.
• Detailed knowledge of high-speed, SERDES based digital interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, Fibre Channel or InfiniBand.
• Strong problem-solving skills and effective conflict resolution abilities.

• 8+ years experience in high-speed digital system/board design OR Field Application Engineering for high-speed digital devices.
• Experience with semiconductor device reliability testing and characterization methods, such as HTOL, ELFR, LU and ESD
• Experience in investigating component failures across NPI, mass production, and field returns, with knowledge of sophisticated FA techniques.