# Power Hardware Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Common Hardware Group (CHG) Power is a central team that supports power design across various products like Cisco 8000 Series Routers, Catalyst 9000 switches, IoT, and many others.

As a Power Hardware Engineer, you will develop highly reliable Power solutions for Cisco's networking products. These products range from 10W IP phones to 3000W+ Data Center and Service Provider switches and routers.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and qualify system power to meet the power requirements of new products.

- Develop and execute test plans for upcoming power designs and document procedures, plans, and specifications used by the Power team.

- Assist in the resolution of power-related field/product issues for assigned projects.

- Engage with power supply vendors to develop power supply that meets Cisco Quality requirement and timeline.

- Perform design reviews of schematics, BOMs, layout and routing.

- Perform and review failure analysis (FA), root cause analysis (RCA), and corrective action reports (CAR), and 8D reports.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering or power electronics with 4+ years of experience or a Master’s degree in electrical or computer engineering or Power electronics with 2+ years of experience

- Experience with Front-End-Power (FEP) and Board-Mount-Power (BMP) technologies, topologies such as Flyback, LLC, buck, buck-boost, and design for highest efficiency.

- Experience with any of the following tools: Concept, Allegro, LTspice, PSpice, Simplis, Mathcad, PowerDC, SIWave, Ansys or Hyperlynx.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Knowledge and interest in both Board Mounted and Front-End Power hardware design and solving complex analog or power designs problems.

- Experience using Stability analyzers, oscilloscopes, function-generators, electronic loads, bench programmable AC or DC power sources.

- Familiar with Firmware, Mechanical and thermal design in Power Supply.

- Strong knowledge of components, materials and manufacturing processes, and quality assurance (QA) including performing design for manufacturing (DFM)

- Experience with designing power supplies to meet international regulatory requirements, EMC requirements, reliability requirements, environmental requirements, and leading telecom industry requirements including NEBS.

- Knowledge of software like Python, Labview, C++ and system design.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Power Electronics
- Front-End-Power (FEP)
- Board-Mount-Power (BMP)
- Flyback
- LLC
- buck
- buck-boost
- Concept
- Allegro
- LTspice
- PSpice
- Simplis
- Mathcad
- PowerDC
- SIWave
- Ansys
- Hyperlynx

### Nice to have
- Stability analyzers
- oscilloscopes
- function-generators
- electronic loads
- bench programmable AC or DC power sources
- Firmware
- Mechanical design
- thermal design
- Power Supply
- Python
- Labview
- C++
- system design

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