Data Science Analyst

About the role

Join the Optics Operations team, supporting manufacturing and test operations for optical products by building and sustaining the data infrastructure needed for visibility, control, and continuous improvement. We work across Test Engineering, Manufacturing, and Quality to ensure operational data is accurate, accessible, and actionable. This role will support projects involving manufacturing-line data systems, test data extraction, and analysis workflows tied to optical test operations.

Responsibilities

• Perform data hygiene and reconciliation activities, including identification and resolution of missing, duplicate, malformed, or inconsistent records.
• Analyze test and manufacturing data to identify trends, anomalies, yield issues, and process deviations.
• Monitor manufacturing-line data systems for data quality, completeness, consistency, and usability.
• Create recurring and ad hoc reports to support engineering investigations, operational monitoring, and management decision-making.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize SQL queries, views, stored procedures, and reporting datasets to support manufacturing and test operations.
• Support ETL-style data extraction and transformation workflows from manufacturing databases.
• Maintain and improve Python-based extraction and processing code used for recurring data pulls, normalization, validation, and analysis support.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 2 years of experience in a data analyst or manufacturing data support role.
• Proficient in SQL, including joins, aggregations, filtering, subqueries, common table expressions, and performance-conscious query design.
• Experience with data hygiene, validation, reconciliation, and quality checks in operational datasets.
• Working proficiency in Python for maintaining and improving extraction, cleansing, and transformation scripts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting manufacturing, test, operations, or quality data environments.
• Experience working with data generated by automated test systems, production systems, or factory equipment.
• Familiarity with SPC, Cp/Cpk, yield analysis, or related manufacturing/process-control concepts.
• Experience with Python libraries such as pandas for data manipulation and analysis.
• Experience preparing data for dashboards or business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

About 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.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $166,400.00 to $217,500.00 for new hires in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training.

Full salary ranges for specific locations:

• New York City Metro Area: $137,500.00 - $200,500.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $122,600.00 - $178,400.00

For quota-based sales roles, the ranges include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• Paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit (subject to business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
• Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• Eligibility to earn annual bonuses (for non-sales roles) or performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles), subject to Cisco’s policies

Schedule

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as follows:

• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• Paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at 4.92 hours per pay period
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit (subject to business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, with up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward