# Safety Engineering Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $171,600.00 - $245,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Safety Engineering Technical Leader will be responsible for leading the safety strategy for Cisco's latest hardware, blending compliance with cutting-edge design to protect both customers and innovations.

Responsibilities:

- Act as the primary technical authority for product safety, driving safety strategy and ensuring design integrity across all platforms.

- Lead comprehensive safety design reviews, including PCB layouts, stack-ups, and schematics, while conducting rigorous testing against 60950-1 and 62368-1 standards.

- Own the end-to-end safety compliance program, managing budgets, schedules, and cross-functional reporting to ensure seamless project delivery.

- Proactively identify compliance and operational risks, leading internal investigations and driving issues to resolution with hardware development teams.

- Facilitate regulatory filings with agencies like UL/CSA and lead internal audits, ensuring meticulous documentation of all compliance activities.

- Innovate safety engineering workflows by piloting and deploying AI-assisted tools to optimize cycle time, quality, and overall team performance.

- Monitor industry trends and regulatory shifts, providing strategic guidance to keep products at the forefront of the market.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelors in Electrical Engineering + 8 years of related experience, or Masters in Electrical Engineering + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience.

- Experience with application of IEC/UL 62368-1 to complex hardware, including high-power and high-voltage DC systems.

- Experience with NRTL/CB Scheme process and major market approvals.

- Experience with reviewing schematics, PCB layouts, and mechanical designs.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience setting technical direction across multiple programs, mentoring engineers, and resolving cross-functional safety issues.

- Program management experience, with experience managing numerous projects simultaneously.

- Experience building or adopting AI tools for tasks such as standards gap analysis and testing automation.

- Experience with OCP specifications and high-density AI/ML compute platforms.

- Active involvement in standards bodies or industry groups.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $171,600.00 - $245,000.00

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## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- IEC/UL 62368-1
- NRTL/CB Scheme process
- schematics review
- PCB layouts review

### Nice to have
- program management
- AI tools
- OCP specifications
- high-density AI/ML compute platforms
- standards bodies

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