Senior Semiconductor Product Engineer
About The Position
The Optics Operations Product Engineering team partners with a cross-functional team of development engineers to design and sustain Optical transceiver components and modules throughout their product lifecycle. Product Engineers are self-motivated, result-oriented, and strong-minded engineers who embrace creativity and new ways of thinking to deliver innovative solutions. Optics Operations is an organization that enables and accelerates innovation to create an unrivaled customer experience & competitive advantage for Cisco through end-to-end operation leadership and product lifecycle management. In this role, you will be a key Optics Operations Engineering team member supporting the Cisco Optics Operations next generation product portfolio.
Requirements
- MS or PhD Electrical Engineering and/or related engineering fields
- proven experience working CMOS/Memory foundries or fabless design companies
- Proven track record of transitioning products from NPI to High volume production through a contract manufacture partner
- Experience in advanced CMOS technology nodes 7nm & beyond
- knowledge and experience with design for manufacturability (DFM) during product development
- Analytical skills on troubleshooting and JMP Scripting, Python, or AI models for automated yield prediction and monitoring
- Background with product development tasks: Bill of Materials & Change Management
Nice To Haves
- Strong experience with Advantest 93k ATE for high-performance semiconductor devices.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Optics or Silicon Photonics experience is a plus.
- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with experience presenting senior leadership.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with foundry to drive failure analysis yield loss and improve yield through process optimization
- Collaborate with internal DFT and test teams to bring up and optimize test flow, set up specs.
- Analyze ATE/WAT data and evaluate process corners, yield sensitivity.
- Collaborate with internal DFT and engineering to Improve test coverage to screen downstream failures.
- Correlate ATE test with bench test and system level test
- Own overall yield roadmaps, cost analysis, and continuously yield improvement
- Engage with wafer equipment suppliers, foundries, contract manufacture and test vendors to address issues of quality and performance
- Establish manufacturing metrics to drive continuous improvement of equipment performance and process to meet wafer product specification
- Drive the characterization of NPI & sustaining product yields including benchmark correlations to meet and/or exceed product cost and equipment capacity targets
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
- grants of Cisco restricted stock units
- 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
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 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 from one calendar year to the next
- 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
- performance-based incentive pay
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
