Hardware Engineer

The application window is expected to close on 5/27/2025.

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

This role requires the employee to work onsite at the San Jose office location.

• You will be part of the Service Provider Hardware Team inside Cisco's Common Hardware Group (CHG). This team develops the groundbreaking routers deployed in Service Providers and Data Centers worldwide
• As a Hardware Engineer on the Hardware Design Validation Test (DVT) team, you will be a critical member of a dynamic EDVT (Electrical) team.
• You will collaborate closely with multi-functional teams (Hardware Development, Diagnostics/ Software Development, Mechanical, SI, Power, Thermal, Compliance, and Manufacturing). Through these close partnerships you will deliver best-in-class products and solutions to our customers and drive continual improvements on the team.

• Contribute to a project team of engineers involved in the design, development, and testing of pioneering hardware.
• Execute complex unit and system level testing, debug, isolation, analyze sophisticated problems, and help facilitate the root cause, resolution, and closure.
• Support Design Engineers and provide feedback on complex issues at unit or system level.
• Support testing of product's compliance to internal specs as well as industry standards.
• Support fault isolation, provide detailed issue mitigation, and drive issues to closure.
• Support the root cause field issues, support customer escalation, and fix verification.
• Support board level and system level power design and supply qualification, execute current, power, voltage stability characterization.
• Support thermal design qualification, thermal, power, noise, airflow characterization.
• Support the development of complex automation scripts to support xDVT test tools.

• Bachelor's in electrical or computer engineering with 2 years of related experience or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Hardware Validation
• Experience with Networking Topologies
• Experience with Debugging Routers, Switches, or other networking equipment.

• Experience with Python, or similar Scripting experience is a plus
• Some exposure with any Electrical Test and Measurement Equipment - oscilloscopes, power supplies, power analyzers and meters, AC power sources, DC electronic loads, traffic generators, switches, routers, environment chambers
• Some exposure to Environmental Test Equipment: Thermal Chambers
• Comfortable in a Unix environment.
• Basic understanding of L2/L3 routing and switching.
• Basic knowledge of the OSI Model, LAN/WAN topologies, basic router and switch configurations using IPV4/IPv6/MPLS/VRF.
• Experience with instrument control & automation.
• Ability to lift heavy loads.

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