Hardware Engineering Technical Leader - Board Design, PCB - 10 to 15 years - Bangalore

123 Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems (India) Private Limited in Bengaluru seeks a seasoned Hardware Engineer to design and validate state-of-the-art hardware platforms powering Cisco's AI-era products. You will drive cross-functional efforts spanning architecture, design, qualification, and production to deliver robust solutions.

The role emphasizes collaboration with signal integrity, diagnostics, and external vendors to resolve issues, perform root-cause analyses, and ensure alignment to project specs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's/PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering with required years of experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional development to create solutions.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional development to create customer-aligned hardware solutions.
• Collaborate with signal integrity, diagnostics, and external vendors.
• Oversee hardware design, validation, and lifecycle support.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering

PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering

Tools

PCB layout

Schematic review

Hardware debugging

Job description

Meet the Team Network Hardware Engineering (NHE) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, Wireless, & Industrial products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms—like Silicon One—are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development—from architecture to design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world.

Your Impact

Cisco Hardware Engineers design and develop industry-leading products and solutions. Focus areas include innovation, new technology exploration, execution, quality, cost, and lifecycle support. Development activities span system/board Design, PCB layout, hardware automation, performance characterization, and power analysis. Cross-functional team engagement includes signal integrity, diagnostics engineers, customer escalation engineers, & external vendors. Facilitate communication and creative problem-solving to identify root causes of customer & development issues, categorize failures, and implement corrective measures. Collaborate with external vendors, ensuring suitability and performance of high-performance components and alignment to project specifications. Leverage effective communication schemes to ensure team and leadership alignment.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 10 years of experience, or Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 6 years of related experience, or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 3 years of related experience. Lead cross-functional development efforts to create solutions aligned to requirements and customer needs Facilitate communication and creative problem-solving to identify root causes of customer & development issues, categorize failures, and implement corrective measures.

Preferred Qualifications

Hardware design and validation: Hands-on experience with board or system design, schematic and PCB review, prototype bring-up, testing, and hardware debug. Familiarity with relevant technologies such as Ethernet, PHYs, Switch ASIC operation, and high-speed interfaces.

Cross-functional collaboration

Manage vendor relationships, ensuring suitability and performance of high-quality components and alignment to project specifications. Ability to work with firmware, software, signal integrity, manufacturing, and test teams to resolve technical issues and deliver products.

Product development lifecycle

Experience taking hardware from requirements and design through qualification, manufacturing, and production support.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Cisconians power the future. We make impact as a team, innovating fast and fearlessly to create meaningful solutions on a large scale. The depth and breadth of our technology doesn't just benefit our customers – it also means limitless opportunities for us to experiment and learn. We understand the power each of our unique backgrounds bring when we work together. Because of that, we have a global network of thinkers, doers, experts, and curious creators who help one another do their life’s best work.