# Mechanical Engineering Technical Leader

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

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## Description

The Enterprise Routing organization at Cisco designs and develops Edge and Access routing products. As a Mechanical Engineering Technical Leader, you will design and analyze mechanical systems, equipment, and packaging, and lead junior engineers on complex projects.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Lead junior engineers and provide technical consultation on complex mechanical engineering projects

- Drive industry standards and define future technologies for next-generation Cisco products

- Work with customers and suppliers to turn requirements into product features

- Provide advanced technical knowledge to engineering teams to support assembly, fabrication, and manufacturing

- Oversee testing, failure analysis, reliability, and verification plans

- Coordinate with stakeholders to address issues

- Oversee design for manufacturing (DFM) and BoM cost avoidance strategy

- Select and vet supplier materials

- Collaborate with suppliers to ensure sample materials meet Cisco requirements

- Define the value engineering upfront to recognize future cost savings

- Act as a technical expert in feasibility testing, prototyping, and root cause analysis investigations

- Set standards and approach for technical justification analysis reports

- Identify technology, materials, tools, and methodology to give Cisco products a competitive edge

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's + 12 years of related experience, or Master's + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience

- Experience in design of compute/networking products

- Expertise in use of 3D MCAD tools (Creo/NX)

- Experience designing sheet metal for high-volume production

- Experience with GD&T and tolerance analysis

**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 (holidays, vacation time, sick time)

- Opportunities for bonuses and stock units

**Salary Range:**

$171,600.00 - $245,000.00

## Skills

### Required
- 3D MCAD tools (Creo/NX)
- GD&T and tolerance analysis
- sheet metal design
- mechanical systems design

### Nice to have
- manufacturing tooling
- plastic and die-cast parts design
- mechanism design
- static and dynamic analysis
- tolerance analysis
- Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
- statistical analysis
- I/O/Mezzanine/Back-plane interconnects
- thermal management

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