System Hardware Board Design Engineering Leader; PCB); Onsite

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. We’re a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow.

Because full product development–from design to qualification to production–is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world.

Cisco Silicon One is the only unifying silicon architecture in the market that enables customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches through web-scale data centers and across service providers, enterprise networks, and data centers with a fully unified routing and switching portfolio.

Come join us and take part in shaping Cisco’s ground-breaking solutions by designing, developing, and testing some of the most complex ASICs being developed in the industry.

The Cisco Service Provider Routing Hardware Engineering team develops next-generation hardware by adhering to IEEE standards and industry best practices. Our engineers drive innovation across the full product lifecycle, serving as IP architects, creators, and solution integrators who manage products from concept to production. We design a new class of high-performance routers for the Internet of the future:
Cisco 8000 Series routers. These cloud-enhanced systems are powered by Cisco Silicon One ASICs and deliver the scale, performance, and efficiency required by critical infrastructure.

You will collaborate with board design, ASIC, signal integrity, power, software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, systems, and supplier teams to define, design, validate, and release high-performance networking products.

As a Senior Technical Lead Hardware Board Design Engineer, you will be a recognized expert who shapes multi-year hardware architecture, design standards, and technical strategy for major networking products. You will lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives, resolve the most complex technical problems, and influence senior leaders through clear engineering judgment and compelling technical decisions. This is an individual contributor role with enterprise-level influence;

it does not require people management.

Define long-term hardware architecture, power-delivery strategy, design standards, and technology roadmaps for high-performance networking systems. Lead major, multi-disciplinary hardware initiatives from early concept through product release and customer delivery. Act as a senior escalation point for novel or high-risk architectural, signal integrity, power integrity, reliability testing, field, and manufacturing issues. Develop and communicate technical strategies that align multiple business units and engineering disciplines.

Establish reusable methods, constraints, verification practices, and quality standards for board design. Guide senior engineers and technical leaders through architecture reviews, design tradeoffs, and complex investigations. Represent hardware engineering in executive reviews, strategic supplier discussions, standards activities, and selected external technical engagements. Anticipate industry and technology shifts and recommend investments in future hardware capabilities. Drive decisions using simulations, laboratory evidence, product data, and a clear understanding of business impact.

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 11+ years of experience, or…