Senior Component Reliability Engineer - Hybrid

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Maynard (MA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Component Engineer to maintain high reliability and performance across passive, discrete, and logic components within our Global Supply Chain.

This hybrid role requires collaboration with design teams and suppliers to ensure lifecycle resiliency and quality excellence. You will lead qualification programs, perform failure analysis, and apply reliability modeling to advance Cisco's hardware standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field (Master's preferred)
• Strong understanding of passive, discrete, and logic components technologies and their applications
• 6+ years of professional experience in capacitor, transistor, diodes and resistor component engineering, quality, or reliability in networking, server, and/or optical transceiver industries
• Demonstrated experience in defining and implementing component-level reliability qualification programs, including accelerated stress testing (e.g., THB, HAST, TC, HTOL)

Responsibilities

• Define and implement comprehensive qualification plans for passive, discrete, and logic components to ensure alignment to quality and reliability standards.
• Lead root cause analysis initiatives for technical issues, identifying failure mechanisms to provide lasting solutions.
• Manage supplier technology roadmaps to align with business needs and strengthen supply chain resiliency.
• Collaborate multi-functionally with business units and global suppliers to influence design decisions and proactively mitigate lifecycle risks.
• Apply advanced reliability modeling and rigorous validation techniques to uphold Cisco's established reliability benchmarks.

Skills

Component engineering

Reliability testing

Root cause analysis

Supplier engagement

Education

Electrical Engineering / Materials Science

Tools

THB

HAST

TC

HTOL

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Component Engineer to maintain high reliability and performance across passive, discrete, and logic components within our Global Supply Chain.

This hybrid role requires collaboration with design teams and suppliers to ensure lifecycle resiliency and quality excellence. You will lead qualification programs, perform failure analysis, and apply reliability modeling to advance Cisco's hardware standards.