# Senior Technical Lead Hardware Board Design Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Milpitas, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $194,600.00 - $285,700.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a Senior Technical Lead Hardware Board Design Engineer to join our team. You'll shape multi-year hardware architecture, design standards, and technical strategy for major networking products. You'll lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, resolve complex technical problems, and influence senior leaders.

Responsibilities:

- Define long-term hardware architecture, power-delivery strategy, design standards, and technology roadmaps for high-performance networking systems.

- Lead major, multi-disciplinary hardware initiatives from early concept through product release and customer delivery.

- Act as a senior escalation point for novel or high-risk architectural, signal integrity, power integrity, reliability, field, and manufacturing issues.

- Develop and communicate technical strategies that align multiple business units and engineering disciplines.

- Establish reusable methods, constraints, verification practices, and quality standards for board design.

- Guide senior engineers and technical leaders through architecture reviews, design tradeoffs, and complex investigations.

- Represent hardware engineering in executive reviews, strategic supplier discussions, standards activities, and selected external technical engagements.

- Anticipate industry and technology shifts and recommend investments in future hardware capabilities.

- Drive decisions using simulations, laboratory evidence, product data, and a clear understanding of business impact.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 11+ years of experience, or Master’s in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 7+ years of related experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 4+ years of related experience.

- End-to-End System Design: Experience in hardware board design and system architecture,taking products from concept through production,for high-performance systems, including PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, SerDes, and advanced thermal/EMI management.

- Technical Validation & Tools: Experience with high-speed digital design, signal and power integrity, power distribution, and reliability testing, supported by hands-on use of Cadence design tools and advanced lab instrumentation.

- Strategic Leadership & Delivery: Experience leading complex, multi-site, and cross-functional engineering initiatives, partnering with silicon vendors and contract manufacturers to solve high-impact, ambiguous technical challenges at scale.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Opportunities for professional growth and development

Salary Range: $194,600.00 - $285,700.00

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Hardware Board Design
- System Architecture
- Signal Integrity
- Power Integrity
- Cadence design tools

### Nice to have
- Advanced networking systems
- ASICs
- FPGAs
- High-speed memory
- Multi-gigabit SerDes
- Co-packaged/near-packaged optics
- Python scripting

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