Description
The Silicon One team at Cisco creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally.
As a Mechanical Design Engineer, you will architect, design, and deliver system mechanical design after specification of product requirements. You will demonstrate a high degree of originality and innovation in defining product and project level architecture, significantly influence the design of interfaces between products to ensure interoperability, and resolve complex design issues at system level.
Key responsibilities:
- Architect, design, and deliver system mechanical design after specification of product requirements
- Demonstrate a high degree of originality and innovation in defining product and project level architecture
- Significantly influence the design of interfaces between products to ensure interoperability
- Resolve complex design issues at system level
- Lead project team with building of a major development product (board/enclosure/chassis) coordinating with other departments and participating in scheduling
- Design PCB with advanced technology and knowledge of PCB construction (HDI, Fine Pitch Pin Fields, High IO count)
- Strong in all functional related EMC, Safety, SI, and DFM, Mechanical design issues
- Experience in interconnect solutions, such as power connectivity, high-speed IO, high-speed backplane connector, and cable assembly
- Champion new improved ECAD design methodologies/processes
- Designs and develop advanced thermal/structural solutions to meet the critical performance requirements
- Develop schedules and manage medium-to-size tasks
- Participate and/or take a lead role in Cisco’s Patent Program
- Interfaces cross-functionally and leads team collaboration extending beyond work group
- Excellent verbal skills and professional presentations
- Provide vendor with improved DFM/DFA recommendations
- Write complete functional and design specs independently
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and 7+ years of related experience, or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and 4+ years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience
- Experience in use of 3D MCAD tools (Creo/NX/SolidWorks)
- Experience with sheet metal design, plastic injection molding, diecast, heatsink, fan, interconnect, and PCB layout
- Experience in tolerance analysis, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T), and statistical analysis
Preferred qualifications:
- Prior experience with designing and developing electronic enclosure for fixed network system to EIA/Orv3/MGX rack platforms
- 7+ years of working experience in enterprise electronic system design
- Experience with thermal design for telecom equipment or equivalent
- Experience with NX and/or Creo MCAD modeling tools and Teamcenter PDM data management
- Experience with electronic systems, reading spec, adequate GD&T knowledge to ensure product design requirements are met
- Experience in ECO, BOM, and Deviation processes
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 (vacation, holidays, sick time)
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer