Principal Hardware Engineer

Join our new and critically important team inside Cisco's Common Hardware Group (CHG). Dedicated to supporting hyperscale products and customers, this team collaborates with customers, the field, and various departments such as hardware design, silicon engineering, manufacturing, and quality functions to ensure the successful mass deployment, operation, and quality of Cisco's hyperscale products.

You will work with other senior technical talent composed of the brightest problem solvers and innovators in the Common Hardware Group. Located in San Jose, the team is responsible for driving the highest standards of performance, quality, and continuous improvement to current and next-generation hyperscale products.

• You are a self-starter passionate about learning technologies and solving and debugging complex hardware systems.
• Your good interpersonal skills, critical thinking, problem-solving capabilities, and ability to stay focused while working under pressure make you an outstanding fit for our team.

• Apply your extensive knowledge of hardware technology, product design, architecture, and implementation to diagnose complex issues that Hyperscale customer's encounter.
• Exercise a wide range of influence in developing, qualification, manufacturing, and deploying complex products for the Hyperscale market, ensuring they optimally support customer needs.
• Drive multi-functional initiatives with ASIC teams, hardware teams, vendors, and manufacturers; work with quality assurance teams to implement standard hardware validation and testing processes.
• Provide technical leadership by clearly communicating and conveying technical concepts to internal and/or external forums, including executives and demanding customers.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering with 15+ years of related work experience.
• Experience in hardware design and problem solving.
• Experience with reliability engineering and failure analysis for large-scale deployments.
• Experience in several of the following areas: power systems, networking systems, ASIC/Silicon, and high-speed signal integrity.
• Experience in driving multi-functional technology initiatives and presenting work to customers and executives.

• Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or a relevant degree and 12+ years of related work experience.
• Experience articulating and conveying technical concepts and architectures in various internal and/or external forums, including with demanding customers/problem resolution.
• Familiarity with hyperscale data center architectures and requirements.
• Proficiency in developing test automation.

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