Leader, Hardware Engineering | Power Design Full Time

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 Power Hardware Engineering Leader, you will lead a high performing team that designs and develops 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.

• Leads power architecture and design across multiple platforms, managing a team of 6–8 engineers
• Builds, mentors, and develops high-performing teams and future leaders
• Defines and drives power architecture and strategy in alignment with global direction
• Leads complex problem-solving across multiple products
• Balances performance, cost, and scalability across product lines
• Leverages breadth and depth of knowledge to make recommendations to products and mandate process improvements, with a focus on operational efficiency
• Manages product, solution and/or system level trade-offs and design decisions
• Leads discussions with customers to explain solutions, gather feedback, and work with cross-functional teams to ensure feedback is reflected in design decisions and deployment
• Provides input on key business and organization health indicators to enable decision making
• Develops action plans for optimal resource utilization and management of financial/material resource usage, including supporting Cisco net zero standards

Minimum Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points – these should be clearly defined, objective, non-comparative, relevant, and quantifiable to appropriately evaluate applicants – not including soft skills):

• BSEE + 14 years of relevant experience, or MSEE (advanced degrees a plus) +12 years of relevant experience or PhD + 8 years of relevant experience. Also requires 4+ years of supervisory experience
• Experience with power design or power electronics or analog design.
• Experience with power design topologies such as buck, buck-boost, flyback, LLC, and design for highest efficiency.
• Experience with any of the following tools: Concept, Allegro, LTspice, PSpice, Simplis, Mathcad, PowerDC, SIWave, Ansys or Hyperlynx.

Preferred Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points: these can include soft skills)

• Experience leading teams delivering quality projects on time in a fast paced work environment
• Experience leading teams to design Board mounted power supplies for high Power systems and Front End Power that meet international regulatory requirements, EMC requirements, reliability requirements, environmental requirements
• Experience building and scaling engineering teams
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and drive technically complex Board Mounted and Front-End Power hardware design programs and failure analysis
• Knowledge of latest power technologies such as TLVR, CFP, vertical power delivery and firmware, Mechanical and thermal design trade offs in Power Supply design.
• Knowledge of lab equipment such as analyzers, oscilloscopes, function-generators, electronic loads, bench programmable AC or DC power sources.