Senior Semiconductor Product Engineer

This is a Hybrid role based out of Maynard, MA, San Jose, CA, or Holmdel, NJ.

About the Team

The Optics Operations Product Engineering team partners with a cross-functional team of development engineers to design and sustain Optical transceiver components and modules throughout their product lifecycle. Product Engineers are self-motivated, result-oriented, and strong-minded engineers who embrace creativity and new ways of thinking to deliver innovative solutions.

Optics Operations is an organization that enables and accelerates innovation to create an unrivaled customer experience and competitive advantage for Cisco through end-to-end operation leadership and product lifecycle management. In this role, you will be a key Optics Operations Engineering team member supporting the Cisco Optics Operations next-generation product portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with foundry to drive failure analysis yield loss and improve yield through process optimization
• Collaborate with internal DFT and test teams to bring up and optimize test flow, set up specs
• Analyze ATE/WAT data and evaluate process corners, yield sensitivity
• Collaborate with internal DFT and engineering to improve test coverage to screen downstream failures
• Correlate ATE test with bench test and system-level test
• Own overall yield roadmaps, cost analysis, and continuous yield improvement
• Engage with wafer equipment suppliers, foundries, contract manufacturers, and test vendors to address issues of quality and performance
• Establish manufacturing metrics to drive continuous improvement of equipment performance and process to meet wafer product specification
• Drive the characterization of NPI and sustaining product yields including benchmark correlations to meet and/or exceed product cost and equipment capacity targets

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Electrical Engineering and/or related engineering fields
• Proven experience working with CMOS/Memory foundries or fabless design companies
• Proven track record of transitioning products from NPI to high-volume production through a contract manufacturing partner
• Experience in advanced CMOS technology nodes (7nm and beyond)
• Knowledge and experience with Design for Manufacturability (DFM) during product development
• Analytical skills in troubleshooting and JMP Scripting, Python, or AI models for automated yield prediction and monitoring
• Background with product development tasks: Bill of Materials and Change Management

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with Advantest 93k ATE for high-performance semiconductor devices
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills
• Optics or Silicon Photonics experience is a plus
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with experience presenting to senior leadership

Pay

The starting salary range for this position is $154,900.00 to $225,300.00 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: $154,900.00 - $259,100.00
• Non-Metro New York State & Washington State: $136,500.00 - $228,300.00

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 a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit on vacation time (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)
• Eligibility to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment

Schedule

Hybrid role.