Senior Hardware Design Engineer – Networking Boards

Cisco Systems, Inc; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 197,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a hardware engineer to own end-to-end design and delivery of medium-to-complex hardware features for high-performance product integration.

You will contribute to hardware specifications and design reviews to maintain Cisco quality standards, and develop test plans to enhance reliability and performance. You will collaborate with system designers and diagnostics engineers to solve board- and system-level challenges, ensuring smooth deployment across Cisco’s

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience, or a Master’s degree with 1+ years of relevant experience.
• Prior experience in hardware design for networking and compute applications.
• Experience designing boards with ARM or x86 processors, with knowledge of I2C, SPI, and PCIe (Gen5).
• Prior experience in bring-up and debugging of boards.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end design and delivery of medium-to-complex hardware features for high-performance product integration.
• Contribute to hardware specification and design review to align with Cisco quality standards and industry best practices.
• Develop test plans and strategies to improve product reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with system designers and diagnostics engineers to resolve board- and system-level challenges for seamless deployment.

Skills

End-to-end design thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

High-speed board design

Testing and validation

Cost/performance optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related field

Master’s degree with 1+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Board design for networking/compute applications

ARM and x86 microprocessors

I2C bus

SPI bus

PCIe Gen5

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking a hardware engineer to own end-to-end design and delivery of medium-to-complex hardware features for high-performance product integration.

You will contribute to hardware specifications and design reviews to maintain Cisco quality standards, and develop test plans to enhance reliability and performance. You will collaborate with system designers and diagnostics engineers to solve board- and system-level challenges, ensuring smooth deployment across Cisco’s