# Hardware Development Manager

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $171,600.00 to $245,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a motivated and experienced people leader who enables the engineering team to improve and optimize the engineering processes and infrastructure to deliver a great experience to the engineering organization for building products. Directs the activities of a hardware development function, including research and technical design for electronic parts, circuitry, and mechanical systems.

Responsibilities:

- Manages the daily activities of a hardware team (typically manages a midsized team)

- Identifies and leads problem solving within Data Center product family

- Maintains standards (e.g., product review)

- Evaluates and resolves technical feasibility, design optimization, and production issues

- Ensures technical quality throughout the architecture and design process

- Finds opportunities and potential barriers to process enhancement and/or product improvement within area of accountability and may make recommendations.

- Leads hardware projects from requirements to execution, including delivery.

- Brings together team members from all hardware disciplines as needed to ensure that the right hardware solutions are developed.

- May participate in meetings with internal customers to explain solutions, gather feedback, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure feedback is reflected in design decisions and deployment.

- Seeks alternate sourcing options and collaborates with finance to obtain financial performance; plans, analyzes and distributes summaries on key financial/other material resources.

- Collaborates with multiple stakeholders to understand business performance indicators relevant to a product.

- Tracks resource use to ensure minimal waste and reduce duplication of efforts .

Minimum Qualifications:

- BS in Electrical Engineering with 10 years of related experience, in Electrical, manufacturing and design.

- Good understanding of PBA and PCBA manufacturing process and technology

- Experience working on a switch/router product.

- Experience with being a people leader and managing teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Master’s degree in relevant field.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees, 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- PBA
- PCBA
- manufacturing
- design
- switch/router

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in relevant field

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