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Test Development Engineer

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Meet the Team

 Our team is a passionate group of professionals dedicated to accelerating innovation in high-speed optical transceiver testing. We thrive on collaboration across hardware, software, and product disciplines to ensure quality and efficiency in every phase of product ramp-up. Leveraging advanced automation and AI-driven tools, we continuously enhance test coverage and operational excellence. Together, we tackle challenges with resilience and creativity, driving improvements that directly contribute to faster time-to-market and customer satisfaction. Joining us means becoming part of a forward-thinking team that values technical expertise, problem-solving, and a commitment to delivering impactful results.


Your Impact:

  • Lead new product test capacity fast ramp up in early mass production phase, work with product engineering and design team to drive yield improvement and test time reduction.
  • Lead cost effective, high efficiency test solution development for high volume products.
  • Maintain and improve automated test systems and software tools to increase test coverage and efficiency.
  • Lead troubleshoots test station\product related issues. identify high failures items and ensure issues are resolved by drive to root cause
  • Support product engineering team to debug NFF and RMA troubleshooting.
  • Document test procedures, results, and provide detailed reports to stakeholders.
  • Test process yields monitoring and SPC on a time basis.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience supporting optics product testing, with the capability to independently develop full test systems.
  • Proficiency in software engineering principles and techniques, including programming algorithms, source control, deployment techniques, and multi-threading.
  • Strong experience using TestStand, LabVIEW, and Python for automating test scripts
  • Proven experience with optics test systems, equipment, and fixtures.
  • Deep understanding of Gauge Repeatability and Reproducibility (GRR) and Statistical Process Control (SPC) for qualifying and monitoring Automated Test Equipment (ATE).
  • Experience working with test systems that interact with automated handlers, alignment, or similar equipment in a high-volume environment.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Expertise in developing cost-effective, high-efficiency test solutions for high-volume products.
  • Advanced skills in maintaining and improving automated test systems and software tools to increase test coverage and efficiency.
  • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot test station and product-related issues, driving root cause analysis and resolution.
  • Experience supporting product engineering teams with debugging No Fault Found (NFF) and Return Material Authorization (RMA) troubleshooting.
  • Experience developing a common test platform.
  • Familiarity with additional automation or data analysis tools beyond JMP and SQL

Why Cisco? 

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 score this

Test Development Engineer at Cisco scores 20 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 1 of 4 (Little AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.

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