# Package Layout Team Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $214,100.00 to $309,800.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) at Cisco is looking for a Package Layout Team Leader to lead and grow the San Jose layout team while supporting the execution of complex package programs.

As a Package Layout Team Leader, you will provide technical guidance, mentorship, resource coordination, and people leadership for package layout activities across advanced ASIC packaging projects.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and support the San Jose package layout team, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and day-to-day support to layout engineers.

- Support package layout activities for complex ASIC packaging projects, ensuring high-quality implementation aligned with package design, SI/PI, and manufacturing requirements.

- Collaborate closely with package leads, SI/PI teams, silicon floor planning, and manufacturing partners to resolve technical and process challenges.

- Coordinate layout resource allocation, priorities, and staffing across multiple concurrent projects.

- Support optimization of package pinouts, stack-ups, power distribution, escape routing, and high-speed interface implementation.

- Partner with the global Package Layout Manager and other regional leaders to align methodologies, tools, best practices, and engineering standards across sites.

- Contribute to hiring, onboarding, mentoring, and development of layout engineering talent in San Jose.

- Work with vendors and contractors as needed to support project execution and delivery goals.

- Drive continuous improvement in layout methodologies, quality, and engineering efficiency.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 12+ years of work experience or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 8+ years of work experience or PhD in Electrical Engineering or a related field with 5+ years of work experience.

- 5+ years of experience in package layout or advanced PCB/package implementation.

- Prior experience working with high-speed routing, power distribution networks (PDN), and package layout design principles.

- Experience with industry-standard EDA tools for package layout and design.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience leading or mentoring layout engineers or small technical teams.

- Proficiency with Cadence APD+ or equivalent package layout tools.

- Experience with ASIC package layout implementation, including high-speed interfaces and complex escape routing.

- Prior experience with SI/PI considerations and collaboration with cross-functional engineering teams.

- Experience working with vendors or outsourced layout resources.

- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, or TCL.

The starting salary range for this position is $214,100.00 to $309,800.00.

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- package layout
- high-speed routing
- power distribution networks
- EDA tools

### Nice to have
- Cadence APD+
- ASIC package layout
- SI/PI considerations
- scripting languages

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