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Cisco Mechanical Engineering Technical Leader United States, California, San Jose 443313860
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The application window is expected to close on: July 31, 2025.
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
This role requires being onsite in our San Jose, CA office 4+ days/week.
Our devices are designed to be universally adaptable across service providers and web-scale markets, designed for fixed and modular platforms. Our devices deliver high speed without sacrificing programmability, buffering, power efficiency, scale or feature flexibility.
You'll be part of our group driving our game-changing next-generation network devices built with Cisco Silicon One™.
Your Impact
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in the platform engineering mechanical team at San Jose, CA. The job involves working on current and next-generation mechanical designs of telecom systems.
- Architect, design, and deliver system mechanical design after specification of product requirements.
- Lead resolution of issues by working closely with manufacturing team and suppliers, developing mitigation plans, and keeping management informed.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams (Hardware, Signal Integrity, CAD, Thermal, Manufacturing, etc.) to negotiate requirements and evaluate technical risks and tradeoffs.
- Design and develop innovative mechanical solutions using sheet metal, plastic, and die-cast that meets EMI, safety, and compliance requirements.
- Collaborate with thermal engineers to design and implement cooling solutions.
- Provide technical design guidance and mentoring for junior engineers.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent and 8+ years of relevant experience.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in design of compute/networking products.
- Expertise in use of 3D MCAD tools (Creo/NX).
- Experience with sheet metal design.
- Experience with GD&T and tolerance analysis.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent and 6+ years of relevant experience.
- Relevant experience in the mechanical design of computer/networking equipment for data center.
- Strong knowledge in manufacturing tooling for sheet metal, plastic, and die-casting.
- Experience in designing plastic and die-cast parts.
- Mechanism design experience.
- Experience in performing static and dynamic analysis using tools such as Creo Simulate or ANSYS
- Expert in tolerance analysis, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and statistical analysis.
- Experience in Model-Based Definition (MBD).
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