Description
We are seeking a Senior Technical Lead Hardware Board Design Engineer to shape multi-year hardware architecture, design standards, and technical strategy for major networking products. You will lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, resolve complex technical problems, and influence senior leaders.
Responsibilities:
- Define long-term hardware architecture, power-delivery strategy, design standards, and technology roadmaps for high-performance networking systems.
- Lead major, multi-disciplinary hardware initiatives from early concept through product release and customer delivery.
- Act as a senior escalation point for novel or high-risk architectural, signal integrity, power integrity, reliability, field, and manufacturing issues.
- Develop and communicate technical strategies that align multiple business units and engineering disciplines.
- Establish reusable methods, constraints, verification practices, and quality standards for board design.
- Guide senior engineers and technical leaders through architecture reviews, design tradeoffs, and complex investigations.
- Represent hardware engineering in executive reviews, strategic supplier discussions, standards activities, and selected external technical engagements.
- Anticipate industry and technology shifts and recommend investments in future hardware capabilities.
- Drive decisions using simulations, laboratory evidence, product data, and a clear understanding of business impact.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 11+ years of experience, or Master’s in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 7+ years of related experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 4+ years of related experience.
- End-to-End System Design: Experience in hardware board design and system architecture,taking products from concept through production,for high-performance systems, including PCIe, Ethernet, DDR, SerDes, and advanced thermal/EMI management.
- Technical Validation & Tools: Experience with high-speed digital design, signal and power integrity, power distribution, and reliability testing, supported by hands-on use of Cadence design tools and advanced lab instrumentation (oscilloscopes, logic/spectrum analyzers).
- Strategic Leadership & Delivery: Experience leading complex, multi-site, and cross-functional engineering initiatives, partnering with silicon vendors and contract manufacturers to solve high-impact, ambiguous technical challenges at scale.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Systems Architecture: Experience with advanced networking systems, ASICs, FPGAs, high-speed memory, multi-gigabit SerDes, and advanced packaging.
- Specialized Technologies: Experience in co-packaged/near-packaged optics, signal/power integrity budget analysis, ultra-high-speed signaling, and next-generation power delivery.
- Technical Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Cadence (Concept/Allegro), HyperLynx, ANSYS, Keysight ADS, and advanced lab equipment (VNA, TDR, high-bandwidth oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers).
- Automation: Experience with creating test scripts using Python to streamline validation and design tasks.
- Problem-Solving: Analytical, methodical approach to decomposing complex issues, evaluating empirical evidence, and documenting clear, actionable conclusions.
- Collaboration: History of working effectively within cross-functional teams to drive initiatives forward.
- Leadership & Influence: History of influencing senior technical and business leaders across organisational boundaries, underpinned by exceptional written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills. Dedicated to driving excellence through the mentorship of senior engineering talent.
- Innovation & Industry Impact: A record of delivering large-scale products and technical innovations, evidenced by a history of patents, influential publications, and active standards participation. Committed to advancing the field through strategic thought leadership.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
- Flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer