Power Engineering Technical Lead jobs at Cisco in Taiwan, Taipei

• Perform finite element analysis to evaluate thermal mechanical stress, warpage, solder joint reliability of ASIC package, substrates, and advanced packaging assemblies
• Simulate and analyze linear/nonlinear material behaviors, such as plasticity, creep, and viscoelasticity, relevant to solder joints, Copper, stiffener, and underfills
• Develop and automate simulation workflows using Python, Fortran or similar scripting tools to streamline analysis and reporting
• Provide clear simulation results to support mechanical design, root cause analysis, and risk mitigation
• Support design optimization at early phase of product development and failure investigations by correlating FEA predictions with test data and field returns
• Document and present analysis results, assumptions, and design recommendations in a clear, structured format

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 8 years of related experience, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience
• At least 3 years of experience in mechanical design and thermomechanical simulation of semiconductor packages
• Hands-on experience with 3D modeling, finite element analysis using ABAQUS or ANSYS
• Flexibility to coordinate and communicate across different time zones, supporting global project teams in the US and Asia

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in mechanical or thermomechanical simulation of semiconductors or electronics packaging systems
• Knowledge of GD&T, design-for-reliability (DfR) principles and industry standards (JEDEC, IPC, etc.)
• Experience in flip chips, 2.5D/3D advanced packaging, and/or heterogeneous integration technologies
• Familiarity with material mechanical behavior and material characterization and working knowledge of reliability qualification of semiconductor packages
• Proficiency in script-based automation for simulation to improve simulation efficiency and consistency

Your Impact

• You will be part of a world class Component Quality and Technology Group in Supply Chain Operations, and contribute to ensuring customer success for strategic Cisco products
• Lead the Investigation, root cause analysis, and corrective action for customer and manufacturing thermal related product and component failures.
• Develop and execute test plans to root cause and reproduce component and system failures.
• Develop and maintain metrics to measure and improve customer quality and reliability
• Contribute to the development of test plans and qualification requirements to ensure manufacturing robustness and long-term reliability of fans, fan trays and other thermal components
• Collaborate with several Cisco hardware design teams to improve specifications and qualification procedures.

Minimum Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points- these should be clearly defined, objective, non-comparative, relevant, and quantifiable to appropriately evaluate applicants – not including soft skills):

• BS in Electrical Engineering
• 8-10 years experience in design and/or manufacturing of fans and fan trays for electronics applications.
• Knowledge of industry practices and standards, such as IPC 9591, for fans.
• Experience in Electronic circuit schematic review and/or design.
• Expertise in testing and troubleshooting PCBA/circuit failures.
• Knowledge of electronic components such as MCUs, FETs and other devices.
• PCB/PCBA manufacturing experience and knowledge of industry standards like IPC 610A.
• Knowledge in system assembly and test processes for compute and networking products.
• Thorough knowledge of Reliability Engineering, qualification and failure prediction
• Expertise in root cause analysis, correction action and validation of failures
• Understanding of electronics cooling methodologies and technologies
• Fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese & English

Preferred Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points: these can include soft skills)

MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field.

10+ years experience in design, qualification, and/or manufacturing of fans and fan trays for electronics applications.

10+ years of relevant industry experience in electronics reliability engineering

Comprehensive knowledge of qualification standards and test procedures for compute and networking products.

• Ability to lead by influence without direct reporting chain and advise executive decision makers
• Self-starter, proven ability to work independently on multiple projects and priorities
• Ability to think quickly, respond to changing demands, anticipate future problems, and recommend preventative courses of action
• Excellent communication, project management and metrics design skills
• Ability to create presentations for diverse audiences and varying executive levels to support agile decision-making

Your role as technical leader in power supply technology is expected to excel at switching power supply design. It is imperative that you possess a robust understanding and practical experience in the intricacies of power supply design and knowledge how to quantify the design robustness and reliability. This specialized knowledge is crucial for the development and optimization of the highly efficient and reliable power delivery from facility power grid to networking equipment.

Your responsibilities encompass the end-to-end quality and reliability management of power supply units, advanced design and manufacturing technology evaluation, as well as supply chain resiliency management. You will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in the following areas:

1. Design Expertise: Ensure the designs meet technical requirements. Craft the design margin measures to quantify the design robustness at all applicable operating conditions and worst-case tolerance. This includes the specific circuitry tolerance analysis, the worst-case component stress measure against SOA (safe operating area), firmware control logic examination, transient operating status evaluation and redundant operating evaluation etc.
2. Sub-tier component knowledge: A deep understanding of key sub-tier components used in power supply design. Make sure the components from quality suppliers with mainstream technology are selected for power supply design. Solid understanding how the components’ characteristic would impact power supply circuitry performance and stability. Craft and process sub-tier components quality and reliability examination through data analysis and design of experiments.
3. Environmental and reliability qualification: Set reliability target. Identify the design weakness and reliability through TC, THB, PTC and vibration etc. Deeply understand the methodology of accelerated stress test to evaluate long term reliability. Able to specifically quantify the risk and look for the opportunities for improvement.
4. Manufacturing readiness: Understand the end-to-end manufacturing process for complex power supply units. Examine the assembly and test process capability and assess quality control plan with adequate coverage to ensure sustainable manufacturing readiness.
5. Standards Compliance: Ensuring that all designs adhere to industry standards (e.g., IPC, IEC, NEBS, Telcordia, IEEE, etc..) and standard processes, as well as any regulatory requirements that may apply to the specific application or market.
6. Collaboration and Communication: Working closely and building relationships with multi-functional teams, including engineers from other subject areas and suppliers, and supply chain customers. This also involves effectively communicating andpresenting complex ideas, anticipate potential objections, and persuades others, often at senior levels, to adopt different points of view.
7. Problem-Solving: Lead and resolve design issues, quality reviews and root cause analysis throughout the product life cycle from early feasibility through end of life, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment to our commitment to excellence.
8. Program/Vendor Management: Bring together and lead multi-functional teams comprised of internal and external customers in development and life cycle management of power supply including key sub-tier components. Manage relationships with key vendors/partners and act as primary point of contract between Cisco engineering and suppliers.

You'll be part of the Technology and Quality (T&Q) Organization within the SCO organization. T&Q is a key hub of technical innovation in Cisco. Members of the organization focus on evaluating and developing new technologies to enable sustained product differentiation. You will be a part of a diverse team that seamlessly blends different levels of expertise in several areas of semiconductor and systems design combining traditional knowledge with groundbreaking data analytics techniques to tackle increasingly sophisticated problems. You will regularly engage with Cisco Business Units as your partners and customers, Suppliers of the commodity space you are managing and extended Supply Chain functions including Global Supply Management, Product Operations and Global Manufacturing Organization.

Education & Experience:

• BSME/BSEE or equivalent with 12+ years of design experience in power supply design for networking or computing equipment.

• Expert knowledge in high efficiency and density power supply design and qualification (minimal 5 year’s experience on advanced power design: power > 3KW, Titanium efficiency and 45+ W/cubeinch)
• Proven experience on product reliability evaluation and qualification.
• Experience in leading failure analysis and quality improvement activities. As the program leader, successfully deliver at least 1 quality improvement program

Technical Skills:

• Strong analog circuit design skills, including tolerance analysis, electrical and thermal stress analysis, loop stability analysis etc.
• Rich experience on characterizing power semi-conductors in power converting topology.
• Knowledge of thermal design principles and their effects on application and components.
• Knowledge of digital control architecture for power converter and validation approaches for firmware robustness.
• Good at technical review for DFM (Design for Manufacturing), and manufacturing readiness.
• Proficiency in PCB/PCBA fabrication and assembly techniques, as well as modularized PCBA attaching technologies.
• Proven experience on working with multi-functional teams to generate requirements documents and conduct root cause failure analysis.

• Experience presenting to large product teams, often at senior levels

• Competency in SPC, Cpk, dFMEA & pFMEA, 8D/Corrective Action, Design of Experiments (DOE)
• Knowledge of methodology for Lean and continuous quality improvement.

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You will be a Test Engineer in Silicon Operations focusing on ATE test bring up. You will partner with Cisco ASIC team to bring up tests, characterize units and release test program to production. You will work with Tier-1 OSATs to manage high volume manufacturing test and quality issues. Your role will also be to drive component failure analysis, containments, and root cause corrective actions

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• MSEE (or higher) in Electrical Engineering.
• 6+ years experience in SOC/VLSI/ bring-up, production and characterization test, and product engineering experience.
• Excellent working knowledge of Advantest 93000 tester for characterization and production testing.
• Highly skilled in writing code in C, C++, 93k test methods, PERL, python..
• Knowledge of test cell integration.
• Excellent knowledge of the latest state-of-the-art trends in DFT and test.
• Ability to drive teamwork and leadership across many parts of Cisco's technical entities to provide bleeding-edge solutions for Cisco's ASIC and system test strategies.
• Strong teamwork & collaboration skills. Excellent problem solving & effective conflict resolution skills.
• An effective multi-functional communicator with strong, presentation and interpersonal skills, who perseveres and has multi-functional leadership to get results and change across organizations up to the executive level.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment
• High level of motivation and energy

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