Electrical Engineer (hybrid) - 2020348

About the role

The EPE is responsible for owning the electrical technical content of the product, builds, and validation from pre-concept commit through end of life (EOL) and ongoing engineering (Dfx) for a specific product, or group of products, to support product success.

Responsibilities

• Leads analysis and design input for manufacturability, fulfillment and product quality.
• Evaluates for cost avoidance (NPI), value engineering, circular economy opportunities, and supply chain technical capability.
• Identifies design related opportunities to enable cost reduction and component related yield improvements.
• Supports Supply Chain team with risk mitigation strategies (multi-source tech assessment, component, cost variance, supply chain review, and negotiations).
• Influences and reviews manufacturing capacity / capability, design stability, risk planning.
• Actively seeks and incorporates standard methodologies and results from post-project assessments into new products.
• Collaborates with design, process, test and reliability engineering to tackle problems, using structured problem-solving techniques where applicable.
• Collaborates with multi-functional team to release all product user documentation (ECO, BOMs, TOIs, FAI and process capabilities, change management activities and support).
• Drives component failure analysis, containments, and root cause corrective actions.
• Works with development/manufacturing engineering and management representatives to resolve complex technical problems.
• Handles product qualification.
• Performs statistical data/yield/correlation analysis on large data sets from wafer sort to system final test to find yield issues and drive test and yield optimization.

Who You'll Work With

You will be working very closely with HW Engineering, Product Management/Marketing, Product Ops team, Global Supplier Management (GSM), External Vendors/Suppliers, Mfg Ops and EMS/JDM partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• BSEE in Electrical Engineering.
• 2+ years related experience in product development and manufacturing process.
• Understanding of DFx principles and tools.
• PCBA Manufacturing experience.
• Can communicate concisely for action - with both internal and external executives via executive summaries and project status overviews.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with device qualification, conversant with JEDEC qualification requirements.
• Failure Analysis experience.
• Ability to thrive in a complex environment.
• High level of motivation and energy.

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $115,800.00 to $163,200.00, reflecting the projected salary range 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. For New York City Metro Area: $138,100.00 - $226,000.00. For Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $124,000.00 - $201,000.00.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Eligibility to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• 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 determined by Cisco.
• Non-exempt employees: 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
• Exempt employees: flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations).
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• For non-sales roles: annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.
• For sales roles: performance-based incentive pay on top of base salary, split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan.

Schedule

Hybrid role requires on-site work activity a few days each week (exact days TBD).