MEET THE TEAM
Cisco Hardware Engineers work on next-generation technologies to design and deliver industry-leading hardware products, with a strong focus on user experience, IEEE standards, and industry guidelines.
The Hardware Engineering Assurance team plays a critical role in delivering world-class hardware platforms by ensuring the highest levels of quality, reliability, and performance. The team is responsible for comprehensive system level validation of hardware components and associated software, using a multi-stage validation process to ensure each phase of development meets Cisco’s thorough quality standards prior to production release.
By joining this team, you will directly influence the end-user experience through detailed validation of hardware platform behavior, working alongside highly cooperative and innovative engineers committed to technical excellence and continuous improvement. If you are passionate about quality engineering and motivated to make a measurable impact on modern hardware solutions that power Cisco’s global network infrastructure,
we encourage you to apply.
YOUR IMPACT
- You will be a key contributor to both new product development and sustaining engineering, ensuring robust, high-quality optical interface solutions across multiple Cisco hardware platforms.
- Define and implement platform host test procedures, including design characterization and qualification of high-speed host interfaces.
- Validate high-speed host and optical interfaces from 1 Gbps to 224 Gbps per lane across DAC, multimode, and single-mode solutions.
- Drive validation efforts for emerging optical technologies including CPO, LPO, and LRO, contributing to next-generation system development.
- Review engineering specifications and translate product requirements into comprehensive test strategies and methodologies.
- Integrate new test equipment and build scalable test systems, environments, and automation frameworks.
- Leverage automation and scripting to imple