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Cisco Leader Hardware Engineering 
United States, California, Milpitas 
290067642

24.07.2024
Responsibilities:
  • Lead the Hardware Quality and Field Failure Analysis engineering initiatives.
  • Provide and manage hardware engineering support to customer-facing and support groups and collaborate with development and validation teams, manufacturing, and vendors as needed.
  • Direct the fixing and root cause analysis of hardware issues, including electrical circuits, board signal integrity, power circuits, programmable components, and mechanical problems.
  • Facilitate communication and creative problem-solving to identify root causes of customer issues, categorize failures, and implement corrective measures.
  • Lead the creation of circuit designs and generation of detailed schematics, where applicable, for product quality improvement.
  • Actively engage in design reviews to enable early detection of design issues before product release.
  • Effectively manage vendor relationships, ensuring suitability and performance of high-quality components and alignment to project specifications.
  • Create effective outbound communications to management and customer-facing teams.
  • Lead a dedicated team of Hardware Quality and Failure Analysis engineers on a mission of continuous quality improvement to enhance customer satisfaction and product success.
Who You'll Work With
  • This role brings visibility and empowerment, and you'll work closely with customer-facing teams in technical support and marketing/sales, as well as product groups in engineering and manufacturing.
  • Customer engagement and contributions to the bigger picture are opportunities for the right candidate.
  • You'll also interact multi-functionally internally with teams working on hardware and software development, product validation, manufacturing NPI, custom development, and contract manufacturing at all product life cycle phases.
Who You Are
  • You are an experienced or aspiring hardware leader familiar with technical project and program management. You work with large teams to achieve aggressive common goals.
  • We seek standout colleagues who thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment and desire to contribute to the business's and the organization's success while growing themselves.
  • Experience with people management is preferred but optional.
  • Experience with technical project leadership and multi-functional project execution is required.
  • The ideal candidate has a can-do attitude and is eager to learn and solve the most complicated problems.
  • A true passion for problem-solving and hardware quality engineering
Minimum Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
  • 7+ years of relevant experience in hardware design and development.
  • Experience in managing teams and/or leading technical projects.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience in hardware engineering in the networking equipment industry.
  • Solid technical knowledge and ability to guide technical failure analysis investigations and design optimization
  • Experience leading hardware projects and programs, with an understanding of the end-to-end product lifecycle from concept to production release and product sustaining
  • Familiarity with contemporary hardware interfaces, CPU, USB, PCIe, Ethernet, high-speed SerDes, power and signal integrity, low-voltage, high-current power supplies, and distribution
  • Familiarity with mechanical and thermal designs, constraints, trade-offs, and how they affect product performance and reliability

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