Customer Quality Engineer

Customer Quality Engineer

Cisco's Global Supply Chain organization is looking for an experienced Customer Quality Engineer to join our central Quality Engineering team! Our team plays a meaningful role in shaping product quality from the earliest design stages through customer deployment. If you enjoy solving complex problems, influencing multi-functional teams, and driving improvements, we'd love to meet you.

As a Customer Quality Engineer (CQE) at Cisco, you will be the technical advocate for strategic customers, partnering across Engineering, Supply Chain, Customer Experience, and Account Teams to drive product quality, reliability, and customer happiness.

• Lead customer-facing quality engagements, providing clarity, performance insights, and executive-level updates on hardware quality and reliability.
• Drive complex failure investigations and Root Cause Analyses (RCA), coordinating multi-functional teams to resolve issues and implement corrective actions.
• Serve as the primary liaison for customer quality communications, including mitigation plans, product changes, and field notices.
• Lead field remediation efforts for critical customer environments, monitoring failure trends and delivering strategies to minimize risk and downtime.
• Leverage data analytics and statistical methods to identify quality trends, drive proactive improvements, and support customer audits.
• Partner with engineering teams to influence product quality strategies, maintain deep technical expertise, and support critical customer concerns through rapid issue resolution.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field with 8+ years of experience, or a Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Expertise in Product or Customer Quality Engineering, including product architecture, reliability, and complex failure analysis.
• Strong ability to assess technical risks, evaluate business impact, and drive strategic quality improvements across the product lifecycle.
• Proven success leading high-priority, multi-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders in matrixed organizations.
• Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to leverage data-driven insights to influence executive audiences and deliver long-term quality solutions.

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. 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.

The starting salary range posted for this position is $ to $ and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.…