Job Description: Reliability Engineering
About the Role
As a Reliability Engineering, you are a core technical expert within Cisco’s Quality Organization. You are responsible for the reliability execution across multiple product families (PFs), ensuring that our hardware meets rigorous quality standards from design through end-of-life. You will lead NPI engagements, manage cross-functional reliability tasks, and serve as the primary technical contact for product-level reliability issues. This role requires a solid technical leader who can drive project milestones, execute mitigation plans, and provide data-driven insights to engineering teams to ensure our networking infrastructure remains reliable and performant.
What You’ll Do
Project Reporting & Advocacy: Serve as the Reliability Lead for project-level reviews. Provide technical counsel to program managers and engineering leads regarding risk mitigation and the status of reliability deliverables.
Upfront Reliability Assessment: Manage materials and manufacturing reliability, product-level historical field reliability,
and gap analysis to quantify risks for assigned products.
Reliability Plan Execution: Execute milestone-based reliability plans from planning through design and development, driving deliverables and tracking progress against product objectives.
Design-Phase Risk Analysis: Drive cross-functional FMEA and lead execution of derating analysis and schematic modeling, ensuring design parameters are validated prior to physical testing.
Validation & Demonstration: Lead RDT planning, execution, and failure analysis through product validation, driving root cause resolution before launch.
Launch & Field Performance: Drive early and ongoing field reliability monitoring, failure trending, and Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) performance reporting; lead failure analysis for sustaining issues.
Sustaining Quality and Reliability Programs: Manage ORT, burn-in, and related programs to ensure susta