Engineering Project Manager

Cisco•San Jose, CA

3d•$152,400 - $255,100•Onsite

About The Position

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms—like Silicon One—are shaping the technology industry. The CHG HW PMO team is the program management engine for Cisco's hardware portfolio. We partner across engineering, product management, operations, supply chain, marketing, sales, and leadership teams to turn strategy into executable plans, clear decision-making, and predictable delivery. We create operating rhythms, governance, clarity, and multi-functional coordination that help teams manage dependencies, resolve risks, and deliver products that power Cisco's customers at scale.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years or master’s degree with 4+ years in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, with experience in program/project management, business operations, PMO, Chief-of-Staff support, or hardware/product development.
Experience leading multi-functional programs or projects, including project plans, turning points, dependencies, risks, issue resolution, and partner communications.
Experience supporting business operations or leadership operating rhythms, such as staff meetings, business reviews, action tracking, executive updates, dashboards, or organizational communications.
Experience using AI-enabled tools, workflow automation, or AI assistants to improve project execution or operational efficiency; familiarity with AI concepts, LLMs, or AI agent workflows, prompt engineering, and AI evaluation best practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting hardware, system-level, networking, telecom, or enterprise infrastructure programs within a PMO or product development environment.
Experience in business operations, executive operations, or PMO role supporting senior leadership operating mechanisms in a highly matrixed, fast-paced, and globally distributed environment while balancing program execution with operational priorities.
Familiarity with product development lifecycles, release readiness, change enablement, and launch or operational governance processes.
Experience identifying AI use cases and partnering with engineering teams to deliver AI-enabled business solutions.
Experience managing AI engineering, machine learning, data science, or automation initiatives is a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead small to mid-sized multi-functional programs across the CHG hardware portfolio, driving execution, alignment, and predictable delivery.
Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, breakthroughs, communication frameworks, and governance processes while proactively managing risks, dependencies, and issue resolution.
Partner with engineering, product management, operations, marketing, account teams, and leadership to coordinate planning cycles, business reviews, executive updates, and operational excellence initiatives.
Drive the PMO organization's AI transformation by identifying high-impact opportunities, leading AI adoption initiatives, and embedding AI-enabled ways of working into day-to-day program execution.
Drive AI-related initiatives by managing cross-functional AI projects from requirements, planning, and execution through delivery, rollout, adoption, and continuous iteration, while defining, tracking, and monitoring adoption, performance, efficiency, and business impact KPIs.
Assess data readiness for AI use cases, including structured and unstructured data, data quality, and foundational data architecture, while partnering with technical teams to enable AI solutions.
Apply AI-enabled productivity tools and demonstrate working familiarity with AI agents (e.g., Codex, Claude Code), including prompt engineering, AI workflows, evaluation methods, and testing approaches, to improve team productivity, automate workflows, and find opportunities for operational innovation.

Benefits

medical, dental and vision insurance
a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
paid parental leave
short and long-term disability coverage
basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (for non-exempt employees)
flexible vacation time off program (for exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer