# Senior Component Engineer - Interconnect & Connector Components

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Hanoi
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Component Engineer - Interconnect & Connector Components in Cisco's Supply Chain organisation, you will join the CQT (Component Quality & Technology) team within the Global Supplier Management (GSM) organisation.

You will build a strong understanding of the tools, processes, and techniques used to design, manufacture, and qualify interconnect and connector components for Cisco products.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Supporting the qualification of connector and interconnect component site capabilities and product readiness.

- Serving as a technical contributor in commodity teams, evaluating quality and reliability performance data, and providing inputs for sourcing strategy.

- Contributing to defect reduction and process re-engineering efforts related to interconnect components.

- Identifying, initiating, and driving process improvements that reduce cycle time and cost while maintaining exceptional quality.

- Supporting product transfer and change programs to sustain affected products and supplier sites.

- Engaging early in NPI and providing inputs for concurrent engineering efforts (DFM, FMEA, tooling design, plating, validation testing, etc.).

- Providing technical support to the supply chain and engineering community, building toward subject-matter expertise in interconnect technologies.

The minimum qualifications for this role are:

- A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or an equivalent field, with 5-7+ years of relevant industry experience.

- Foundational hands-on exposure to interconnect and connector technologies at the application and component level, including the fundamentals of associated PCB attach technologies.

- Familiarity with mechanical and electrical design principles , tolerance analysis, fabrication methods, materials selection, plating, and validation testing.

- Experience with problem-solving and process improvement methodologies (8D, Lean Six Sigma) and FMEA facilitation techniques.

- Experience managing multiple projects using established project management skills and tools.

- Fluent English and Vietnamese speaking and writing.

Preferred qualifications include:

- Familiarity with high-speed cable assemblies and their applications.

- Experience with line set-up and line qualification.

- Exposure to SPC, Cause-and-Effect Analysis, Design of Experiments (DOE), and risk assessment for high-volume programs.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- interconnect and connector technologies
- PCB attach technologies
- tolerance analysis
- fabrication methods
- materials selection
- plating
- validation testing
- problem-solving
- process improvement methodologies
- FMEA facilitation techniques
- project management
- English
- Vietnamese

### Nice to have
- high-speed cable assemblies
- line set-up
- line qualification
- SPC
- Cause-and-Effect Analysis
- Design of Experiments (DOE)
- risk assessment
- Chinese

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