Hardware Power Engineering Technical Lead

Cisco•San Jose, CA

22d•Onsite

About The Position

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) Power team supports power design across various Cisco products, including routers and switches. As a Power Hardware Engineer, you will develop highly reliable power solutions for Cisco's networking products, ranging from 10W IP phones to 3000W+ Data Center and Service Provider switches and routers. You will be responsible for all design aspects of the system power, contributing to the power development team.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical or computer engineering or power electronics with 8+ years of experience OR Master’s degree in electrical or computer engineering or Power electronics with 5+ years of experience OR PhD with 2+ years of related experience.
Experience with power design or power electronics or analog design.
Experience with power design topologies such as buck, buck-boost, flyback, LLC, and design for highest efficiency.
Experience with any of the following tools: Concept, Allegro, LTspice, PSpice, Simplis, Mathcad, PowerDC, SIWave, Ansys or Hyperlynx.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge and interest in both Board Mounted and Front-End Power hardware design and solving complex analog or power designs problems.
Experience in designing systems with the latest power technologies such as TLVR, CFP, vertical power deliver for high power ASIC.
Experience using Stability analyzers, oscilloscopes, function-generators, electronic loads, bench programmable AC or DC power sources.
Familiar with Firmware, Mechanical and thermal design in Power Supply.
Strong knowledge of components, materials and manufacturing processes, and quality assurance (QA) including performing design for manufacturing (DFM).
Experience with designing power supplies to meet international regulatory requirements, EMC requirements, reliability requirements, environmental requirements, and leading telecom industry requirements including NEBS.
Knowledge of software like Python, Labview, C++ and system design.

Responsibilities

Develop and qualify system power to meet the power requirements of new products.
Develop and execute test plans for upcoming power designs and document procedures, plans, and specifications used by the Power team.
Assist in the resolution of power-related field/product issues for assigned projects.
Engage with power supply vendors to develop power supplies that meet Cisco Quality requirements and timelines.
Perform design reviews of schematics, BOMs, layout and routing.
Perform and review failure analysis (FA), root cause analysis (RCA), and corrective action reports (CAR), and 8D reports.

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
Cisco restricted stock units
10 paid holidays per full calendar year
1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)