Electrical Product Engineer

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  • Location:
    Austin, Texas, US
  • Alternate Location
    San Jose, California; RTP, North Carolina
  • Area of Interest
    Supply Chain
  • Compensation Range
    101300 USD - 131500 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Networking
  • Job Id
    1436229

The application window is expected to close on 31/03/2024 

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

Meet the Team

Our team is the product operations team within supply chain. We are a creative and dynamic team developing new products and solving sophisticated problems. You’ll be working very closely with HW Engineering, Product Management/Marketing, Product Ops team, Global Supplier Management (GSM), External Vendors/Suppliers, Mfg Ops and EMS/JDM partners.

Your Impact

  • The EPE is responsible for owning the electrical technical content of the product, builds, and validation from pre-concept commit through end of life (EOL) and ongoing engineering (Dfx) for a specific product, or group of products, to support product success.
  • Leads analysis and design input for manufacturability, fulfillment and product quality.
  • Evaluates for cost avoidance (NPI), value engineering, circular economy opportunities, and supply chain technical capability.
  • Identifies design related opportunities to enable cost reduction and component related yield improvements.
  • Supports Supply Chain team with risk mitigation strategies (multi-source tech assessment, component, cost variance, supply chain review, and negotiations).
  • Influence and reviews manufacturing capacity/capability, design stability, risk planning.
  • Actively seeks and incorporates standard methodologies and results from post-project assessments into new products.
  • Collaborates with design, process, test and reliability engineering to address problems, using structured problem-solving techniques where applicable.
  • Collaborate with multi-functional team to release all product user documentation (ECO, BOMs, TOIs, FAI and process capabilities, organizational change activities and support.
  • Your role will also be to drive component failure analysis, containments, and root cause corrective actions and to work with development/manufacturing engineering and management representatives to resolve sophisticated technical problems.
  • Additional skills is to handle product qualification. You should have confirmed ability to perform statistical data/yield/correlation analysis on large data sets from wafer sort to system final test to find yield issues and drive test and yield optimization.

Minimum Qualifications

  • BS in Electrical Engineering.
  • 5 years related experience in product development and manufacturing process.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Understanding of DFx principles and tools.
  • Direct experience with device qualification, conversant with JEDEC qualification requirements.
  • Experience with handling contract manufacturers.

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.

Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us! 

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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