Electrical Product Engineer
Cisco is hiring an Electrical Product Engineer. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cisco.
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- On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- The posting mentions circuit design, dfm and pcb assembly among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a mid-level role.
- Cisco has 1,400+ other open roles on Level.
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Evaluate electronic circuit designs and drive cost avoidance and manufacturing improvements for video collaboration endpoints.
Meet The Team
The Collaboration Video Endpoints Business Unit (CVEBU) is part of the Cisco Collaboration Technology Group. We develop and support advanced video collaboration solutions, including video endpoints for conference rooms, active collaboration rooms, and individual workspaces. Our team focuses on integrating supply chain considerations from the earliest stages of product development to end-of-life to ensure high-quality, AI-powered collaboration experiences.
Your Impact
• Evaluate the design realization of electronic circuits to optimize costs and minimize Bill of Materials (BOM) risk.
• Drive cost avoidance and sustaining engineering improvements throughout the New Product Introduction (NPI) lifecycle.
• Lead complex issue resolution and technical lifecycle management, including defect reduction and new component qualification.
• Assess Contract Manufacturer (CM) and supply chain technical capability gaps to ensure consistent manufacturing quality.
• Lead Design for Manufacturability (DFM) activities, integrating Quality, Reliability and Testability principles to ensure product resiliency.
• Create, analyze, and release technical product documentation to support mass production and field quality standards.
• Represent the Values of Supply Chain in product related design discussions.
• Support Product Lifecycle changes.
Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or 5+ years of professional experience in supply chain, manufacturing, or product development engineering.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing new electronic circuits and components.
• Demonstrated experience working with PCB-Assembly manufacturers.
• Proven ability to perform design lab experimentation, debug, and root cause analysis.
Preferred Qualifications
• Demonstrated experience influencing cross-functional teams to adopt design changes for cost, quality and user experience improvements.
• Expert-level proficiency in applying DFx methodologies (DFM, DFR, DFQ) to complex hardware projects.
• Demonstrated experience influencing cross-functional teams to adopt design changes for cost or quality improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience presenting technical data to stakeholders.
• Proven ability to adapt quickly in a fast-paced, changing environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Familiarity with industry innovations and trends in networking or video collaboration technology.
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.
How we rate this
Electrical Product Engineer at Cisco rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
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