Meet the Team

Common Hardware Group (CHG) Power is a central team that supports power design across various products like Cisco 8000 Series Routers, Catalyst 9000 switches, IoT, and many others. As part of the central hardware power engineering group, you will collaborate with various functions like Hardware Design and Test, ASIC Design and Test, Power Engineering, Signal Integrity, EMC / EMI, and Mechanical Design, growing the breadth of your knowledge, designing power and delivering outstanding products to the market.

 Your Impact

As a Hardware Engineer, you will develop highly reliable Power solutions for Cisco's networking products. These products range from 10W IP phones to 3000W+ Data Center and Service Provider switches and routers. This individual will contribute to the power development team and be responsible for all design aspects of the System power.

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 supply that meets Cisco Quality requirement and timeline. 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.  Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Power Electronics, or a related field with 7+ years of experience, a Master’s degree with 4+ years of experience, or a PhD with 1+ year of relevant experience. Experience with power design or power electronics or analog design. Experience in design topologies such as buck, buck-boost and design for highest efficiency. Experience with any of the following tools: Concept, Allegro, LTspice, PSpice, Simplis, Mathcad, PowerDC, SIWave, or Ansys or Hyperlinx Preferred Qualifications: Knowledge and interest in both Board Mounted and Front-End Power hardware design and solving complex analog or power designs problems Experience using Stability analyzers, oscilloscopes, function-generators, electronic loads, bench programmable AC or DC power sources etc. 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.

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