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Technical Leader

Cisco Bangalore, India senior full-time

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Description

We are the Web scale and Service Provider (SP) Product Engineering team responsible for delivering Cisco's best high-performance, provider class routers and switches, the Cisco 8000 series.

As the Technical Leader you will provide new product and ongoing engineering (including DFM/DFA/DFC/DFFS) for a specific product or group of products from pre-concept commit through EOL.

Responsibilities:

  • Review, provide input for the design & architecture from DFM, Component technology used, EOL etc and influence the design team for optimum selection.
  • Provide all technical support required for Proto builds and ensure cost, Quality and delivery targets are met.
  • Manage change management activities & work towards meeting factory and field Quality metrics.
  • Drive Value Engineering activities to improve the cost margins during the product life cycle.
  • Provide Supply chain continuity & Resiliency support.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • BS+6-8 year of work experience as product or design engineer.
  • Very good understanding on Electronic product design and architecture.
  • Knowledge of PCB design, Stack ups and Allegro.
  • Knowledge of Valor and DFM is a Plus.
  • Knowledge of PCBA Manufacturing, System Build and NPI process.
  • Expected to have good driving capability to work with cross-functional Teams and drive the deliverables to closure.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Good understanding of Hardware interfaces – High speed serial interfaces, PCIE, Ethernet, SATA, I2C etc.
  • Design lab experimentation / debug (proficiency continuum) / DOE /EFA.
  • Technical lifecycle management (defect reduction team participation, new component qualification, etc).
  • Assessing CM and supply chain technical capability gaps.

Skills

Required

  • Electronic product design
  • PCB design
  • Allegro
  • Valor
  • DFM
  • PCBA Manufacturing
  • System Build
  • NPI process

Nice to have

  • High speed serial interfaces
  • PCIE
  • Ethernet
  • SATA
  • I2C
  • Design lab experimentation
  • DOE
  • EFA
  • Technical lifecycle management
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