Description
The Silicon One team at Cisco creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally.
As a Hardware Operations Coordinator, you will coordinate and oversee the operational execution of pre-silicon hardware prototyping runs to accelerate the development of Cisco’s next-generation architectures. You will manage manufacturing reservations, technical order submissions, and documentation workflows through external supplier portals to ensure critical milestones consistently meet operational deadlines. You will also synchronize multi-component logistics and international supplier schedules to align hardware deliveries and prevent testing or bring-up bottlenecks.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 2+ years of professional experience in project coordination, hardware operations, logistics, purchasing, or technical administration within an engineering or technology organization; or no experience with Master's degree in the semiconductor related field.
- Proven experience tracking project schedules, purchase orders, or bill of materials using Microsoft Excel (including formulas, pivot tables, and structured data tables).
- Exceptional attention to detail and structured time-management skills to balance multiple competing project timelines simultaneously.
- Professional working proficiency in English (written and spoken) for international technical collaboration.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent formal tertiary education in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Semiconductor Technology, Physics, Materials Science, or a related technical field.
- Direct prior experience working within the semiconductor industry, silicon foundry ecosystem (e.g., TSMC customer support/planning), or microelectronics packaging.
- Familiarity with advanced packaging technologies and multi-chip modules (such as substrates, interposers, 2.5D/3D architectures, or CoWoS).
- Demonstrated proactive communication skills to effectively follow up on technical work with distributed, multi-site engineering teams across global time zones.
- Language proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, Hebrew, or Armenian.