Job highlights

- Bachelors degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 5 years of experience,or Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 3 years of related experience,or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 0 years of related experience.
- Minimum Qualifications
- Preferred Qualifications

Job Summary Network Hardware Engineering (NHE) creates innovative 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. Were 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, current 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.

Leverage 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.

Responsibilities

- 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.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelors degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 5 years of experience, or Masters in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 3 years of related experience, or PhD in Electrical or Computer Engineering + 0 years of related experience.
- Focused on Board Design, Hardware Lab Test, and Qualification support
- Experience in hardware engineering within the Networking Equipment industry.
- Understanding of the end-to-end product lifecycle from concept to production release and product sustaining.
- Solid technical knowledge and ability to guide technical failure analysis investigations and design optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

- Familiarity with contemporary hardware interfaces, CPU, USB, PCIe, Ethernet, high-speed SerDes, power and signal integrity, low-voltage, high-current power supplies, and distribution.
- Familiarity with mechanical and thermal designs, constraints, trade-offs, and how they affect product performance and reliability.

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📌 Hardware Engineer (Board Design , PCB layout) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Cisco
📍 Bengaluru