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Cisco Senior Mechanical Engineer United States, California, San Jose 870999586
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The application window is expected to close on: October 3, 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 San Jose, CA at least 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 on the platform engineering mechanical team in San Jose, CA. The job involves working on current and next-generation mechanical designs of telecom systems.
High-Level Responsibilities:
- Design and deliver fixed or modular chassis and cards that meets system product requirements.
- Develop 3D CAD model using Creo or NX.
- Create detailed drawings by applying Geometric Tolerancing and Dimensioning (GD&T) principles.
- Perform detailed 2D tolerance analysis for complex electro-mechanical assemblies using spreadsheet and/or 3D tolerance analysis tools such as CETol.
- Design and develop innovative mechanical solutions using sheet metal, plastic, and die-cast that meet EMI, safety and compliance requirements.
- Participate in resolution of issues by working closely with the manufacturing team and supplier and developing mitigation plans.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams (Hardware, Signal Integrity, CAD, Thermal, Manufacturing, etc.) to negotiate requirements and evaluate technical risks and tradeoffs.
- 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 and 7+ years of experience OR Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and 5+ years of experience.
- Experience in use of 3D MCAD tools (Creo/NX/SolidWorks).
- Experience with sheet metal design.
- Experience in tolerance analysis, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) and statistical analysis.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the mechanical design of electronic enclosures/computer/networking.
- Experience in manufacturing tooling for sheet metal, plastic, and die-casting.
- Experience designing plastic and die-cast parts.
- Model-Based Definition (MBD) experience.
- Experience with PDMLink (TeamCenter).
- Experience in ECO, BOM, and Deviation processes (experience with Agile).
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