# Principal Hardware Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $233,900.00 - $330,400.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Hardware Engineer to serve as a key technical authority within our networking organisation. This role transcends individual product lines, positioning you to drive architectural strategy across internal cross-functional groups and our most strategic customer accounts.

Responsibilities:

- Actively participate in engagements with current and potential customers, ensuring feedback from customers is incorporated into future products, working with product management and engineering

- Work with product marketing on future product architectures

- Actively participate in standards committees to influence industry practices

- Work with hardware, software, and test engineering to deliver quality products to the field

- Work with external vendors to ensure they can deliver products which meet our needs for future products

- Support customer demonstrations at internal labs, demo labs, and/or trade shows and conferences

- Author/co-author white papers and user tutorials for the Marketplace

- Collaborate with Field Solutions and CSE teams to leverage expertise and scaling potential

- Provide technical TOI and NPI training in various customer-oriented events

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and 15+ years of relevant signal and power integrity experience, or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and 12+ years of relevant signal and power integrity experience, or PhD in Electrical Engineering and 8+ years of relevant signal and power integrity experience

- At least 5 years' experience driving System Architecture of hardware systems, including tradeoffs between signal integrity, power integrity, thermal design, total power consumption, cost, and schedule

- At least 5 years' experience driving cross-functional buy-in and approval of complex strategic programs with interior executive management

- At least 5 years' experience generating, driving cross-functional review of, and presenting customer-facing materials for strategic projects

Preferred Qualifications:

- Demonstrates impactful proficiency in system architecture, hardware, and software design, including FPGA and ASIC design and verification, system bring-up and debug, and thermal design

- Exhibits effective skills in articulating complex ideas and technical concepts clearly and effectively to diverse audiences, both verbally and in writing

- Possesses successful documentation and organisational capabilities, adept at defining workflows that clarify priorities, setting meeting agendas, recording, and distributing notes, and driving tradeoffs to resolution with key stakeholders

- Demonstrates leadership excellence with experience building and nurturing technical relationships across customer architects, software teams, and Cisco cloud, data centre, and network product teams and partners

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

- Paid time away, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $233,900.00 - $330,400.00

## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- signal and power integrity
- System Architecture
- hardware systems
- cross-functional management

### Nice to have
- FPGA and ASIC design and verification
- system bring-up and debug
- thermal design
- leadership excellence
- technical relationships

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