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 collaborative and cutting-edge 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 im

📌 Hardware Validation Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cisco
📍 Bengaluru