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