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