# Product Reliability Engineer - Silicon One

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $155,000.00 to $222,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the Silicon Operations Quality & Reliability team at Cisco, working on ensuring the long-term reliability and physical integrity of Silicon One ASICs.

As a Product Reliability Engineer, you will own the end-to-end reliability qualification lifecycle for Silicon One ASICs, guaranteeing world-class performance and field readiness.

Key responsibilities:

- Execute end-to-end reliability test plans for new products from initial silicon bring-up through full production qualification.

- Assess integrated circuit (IC), package, and process reliability against industry standards.

- Lead cross-functional failure analysis (FA) and root-cause investigations.

- Analyze reliability datasets, life acceleration models, and burn-in trends.

- Deliver comprehensive qualification reports and risk assessments.

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, Microelectronics, Physics, or a related technical field.

- 3+ years of experience in semiconductor product reliability, manufacturing/assembly, test processes, supply chain, and failure analysis.

- Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing, IC test methodologies, device reliability, and common silicon/package failure mechanisms.

- Hands-on experience with accelerated life testing, reliability estimation, and reliability testing of semiconductor components and modules.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience qualifying devices fabricated on advanced semiconductor process nodes or using advanced packaging technologies.

- Direct experience managing qualification test execution, hardware development, and scheduling with external third-party testing laboratories.

- Practical knowledge of physical failure analysis techniques.

The starting salary range for this position is $155,000.00 to $222,600.00.

Benefits include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.

## Skills

### Required
- semiconductor product reliability
- electrical engineering
- materials science
- microelectronics
- physics
- accelerated life testing
- reliability estimation
- reliability testing

### Nice to have
- advanced semiconductor process nodes
- physical failure analysis techniques
- qualification test execution
- hardware development
- external testing laboratories

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