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.