Cisco Sr Manager 

Taiwan, Taipei, Taipei 

934794385

What You’ll Do (Roles & Responsibilities)

Your responsibilities as CE Team Leader include (not limited to):

Vendor Base Management: Analyze existing vendors’ technology and quality capabilities, aligning them with Cisco’s business needs. Maintain strong relationships with vendor executives for strategic alignment and assess new suppliers based on business requirements.

1. FEP Technology Roadmap : Understand high-efficiency, high-power-density power system architecture. Research new topological structures and control algorithms to address key technical challenges in efficiency, power density, and design robustness, promoting new technologies in the roadmap.
2. FEP Design and Manufacturing Excellence : Ensure designs meet technical requirements by setting benchmarks for design margin measures to quantify robustness under various operating conditions and worst-case scenarios. This includes analyzing circuitry tolerance, component stress measures against safe operating areas (SOA), firmware control logic, transient operations, and redundant evaluations. Oversee the end-to-end manufacturing process for complex power supply units, ensuring sustainable manufacturing readiness through thorough Manufacturing Readiness Reviews (MRR) and quality control assessments.
3. Quality Management : Lead teams in managing quality risks, conducting root cause analysis, and developing preventive solutions to ensure customer satisfaction. Manage alternate sourcing and qualification to minimize business impact during supply chain constraints. Having a deep understanding of key sub-tier components in power supply design helps ensure the selection of advanced components from quality suppliers through adequate evaluation understanding their impact on circuitry performance and stability.
4. Resilient Supply Chain : Adhere to company policies for geographic risk mitigation by assessing supply dependence risks and leading comprehensive risk mitigation plans, including site capability assessments and quality qualifications to ensure long-term resiliency.
5. Team Development : Lead and develop a strong and effective global power component engineering team to
6. Collaboration with strong communication skills : Build relationships with internal cross-functional teams, including business units leader, engineers from different disciplines, suppliers engineering leaders, and supply chain stakeholders including Contract . Communicate complex ideas effectively, anticipate objections, and persuade others at senior levels to adopt different viewpoints.

You'll report into the Component Quality and Technology (CQT) team part of the Global Supply Management (GSM) within the Supply Chain Organization. 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:

• Minimal BSEE/MSEE or equivalent, Master degree is preferred
• 15+ years of experience in power supply design for networking or computing equipment.
• 5+ years of people management experience on a global team
• Technical Expertise:
• Expert knowledge in high efficiency and density power supply design and qualification
• Proven experience on product reliability evaluation and qualification.

Experience in leading failure analysis and quality improvement activities.

• 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 cross-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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