# Interconnect Component Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Taipei, Taiwan
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As an Interconnect Component Engineer in Cisco's Supply Chain organization, you will join the CQT (Component Quality & Technology) team within the Global Supplier Management (GSM) organization.

In this role, 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.

Responsibilities and tasks include:

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

- Serve as a technical contributor in commodity teams; evaluate quality and reliability performance data and provide inputs for sourcing strategy.

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

- Identify, initiate, and help drive process improvements that reduce cycle time and cost while maintaining exceptional quality.

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

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

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

Minimum Qualifications:

- 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.

- Requires on-site support at manufacturing facilities.

- Strategically focused, impact-oriented, highly organized, and adaptable.

- Fluent English and Chinese speaking and writing.

Preferred Qualifications:

- 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.

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## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- interconnect and connector technologies
- PCB attach technologies
- problem-solving
- process improvement methodologies
- FMEA facilitation techniques
- project management
- English
- Chinese

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

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