Job Summary

Network Hardware Engineering (NHE) creates cutting-edge hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco's core Switching, Routing, Wireless, Industrial products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms, like Silicon One, are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow. Because full product development-from architecture to design to qualification to production-is within our team, we're able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world.

Your Impact

- Cisco Hardware Engineers design and develop industry-leading products and solutions. Focus areas include innovation, new technology exploration, execution, quality, cost, and lifecycle support.
- Development activities span system/board Design, PCB layout, hardware automation, performance characterization, and power analysis. Cross-functional team engagement includes signal integrity, diagnostics engineers, customer escalation engineers, external vendors.
- Facilitate communication and creative problem-solving to identify root causes of customer development issues, categorize failures, and implement corrective measures.
- Collaborate with external vendors, ensuring suitability and performance of high-performance components and alignment to project specifications.




- Leverage effective communication schemes to ensure team and leadership alignment.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 10 years of experience, or Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 6 years of related experience, or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 3 years of related experience.
- Lead cross-functional development efforts to create solutions aligned to requirements and customer needs
- Hardware design and validation: Hands-on experience with board or system design, schematic and PCB review, prototype bring-up, testing, and hardware debug.
- Familiarity with relevant technologies such as Ethernet, PHYs, Switch ASIC operation, and high-speed interfaces.

Preferred Qualifications

- Manage vendor relationships, ensuring suitability and performance of high-quality components and alignment to project specifications.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Ability to work with firmware, software, signal integrity, manufacturing, and test teams to resolve technical issues and deliver products.
- Product development lifecycle: Experience taking hardware from requirements and design through qualification, manufacturing, and production support.

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📌 Hardware Engineering Technical Leader - Board Design, PCB (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cisco
📍 Bengaluru