Head of Semiconductor Product Engineering

Cisco; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 195,000 - 286,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco's Optics Operations Product Engineering team partners with cross-functional engineers to design and sustain optical transceiver components and modules throughout their product lifecycle. Product Engineers are self-motivated, result oriented, and strong-minded, adopting creativity and AI-driven thinking to deliver innovative solutions.

Your impact includes leading an engineering team, driving AI-powered process transformation, improving yield, and ensuring manufacturing strategies from

Qualifications

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Optical Physics, Photonics, or related engineering fields
• 10+ years in semiconductor industry as a technical lead, including 5+ years in people leadership
• Expertise in fabrication processes, wafer sort/probe, and advanced packaging (2.5D/3D, flip-chip, optical interconnect)
• Mentoring skills to develop engineers across career stages with accountability
• Hands-on mastery of SPC, DOE, Six Sigma, and yield-management tools (JMP, Spotfire)

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team to deliver state-of-the-art semiconductor wafer products meeting Cisco quality and performance standards
• Partner with cross-functional teams (design, foundry, IC packaging, test, reliability) to exceed yield, quality, and costs targets
• Lead the product engineering team to drive yield & Quality, implement DFx principles and manage products from initial silicon to high volume manufacturing (HVM)
• Collaborate with design & test teams to establish manufacturing and test strategies, including DFT implementation, test hardware specs, and test program creation
• Deliver AI-Driven process transformation to continuously improve quality, yield, and cost through test time reduction and root-cause analysis across design, fab, and packaging
• Create and execute strategies leveraging AI-powered analytics to streamline product development, accelerate failure identification, and enhance yield management
• Coach and upskill junior to senior engineers, fostering technical capabilities and an AI-driven mindset to maximize productivity and efficiency

Skills

Technical leadership

Yield management

SPC

DOE

Python

ML libraries

Stakeholder management

Education

MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering / Optical Physics / Photonics

Tools

JMP

Spotfire

DFx methodologies

Job description

Cisco's Optics Operations Product Engineering team partners with cross-functional engineers to design and sustain optical transceiver components and modules throughout their product lifecycle. Product Engineers are self-motivated, result oriented, and strong-minded, adopting creativity and AI-driven thinking to deliver innovative solutions.

Your impact includes leading an engineering team, driving AI-powered process transformation, improving yield, and ensuring manufacturing strategies from