San Jose, California, US
18 hours ago
Hardware Engineer

The application window is expected to close on:  07/18/2025.

This job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.


Meet the Team

The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers the silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco's core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products.  With ~2,100 employees across 16 countries, we craft the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers of various sizes, the Public Sector, and Non-Profit Organizations across the world.

The Computing Systems Products Group, through The Unified Computing Systems innovative architecture, helps to enable the fully unified data center.  We architect the next generation unified computing systems, including compute, storage, network, visualization, and management into a single platform.


Your Impact

You'll have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse group of engineers, including a dynamic software and hardware development team composed of dedicated engineers, programmers, and designers.  Together, you'll be responsible for bringing innovative technology to life.  You will also interact closely with project managers who are skilled at coordinating complex projects, ensuring that milestones are met, and deliverables are driven with precision. Additionally, your work will involve coordination with external vendors, encouraging robust partnerships that facilitate access to specialized resources and services.

You are curious and a problem solver.  You love to learn and grow and work in an environment that is constantly evolving.  You are a self-starter that thrives on learning information quickly and uses resources to research and resolve issues.  You have excellent verbal and written communications skills.  You can own the innovation, design and architecture of new hardware products, services, and solutions.

In this highly visible role as Hardware Engineer, you will:

coordinate and contribute to engineering work including specifications and test plans. interact, lead, and address challenging technical problems with multi-functional teams. act as technical liaison to key suppliers for the product and technical perspectives. assist with decision making to resolve technical tradeoff, operational and business considerations. be involved in hardware integration, validation, and performance of the products like the latest GPU, NICs, FC HBAs, RAID Controllers in Intel and/or AMD based servers.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, or relevant degree with 5+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent related work experience 2+ years of experience writing scripts with Shell scripting or Python Experience with Storage and Networking devices validation Operating systems like Linux, Windows, ESX (VMWare) Basic knowledge BIOS Baseboard Management Control (BMC) Prior experience with troubleshooting/debugging on system level Prior experience in lab bring up

Preferred Qualifications

M.S. in Computer Engineering, or relevant degree with 3+ years of relevant work experience or equivalent related work experienceHands-on engineering efforts for system bring up and validation in the lab Prior experience working with GPU’s and Networking Cards

 Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.  These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put – we power the future.  

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions.  Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.  We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale.  Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.   

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.


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