We are Cisco's Failure Analysis team, which plays a critical role in ensuring high Customer/Product quality. The Quality organization is responsible for delivering customer focused quality, reliability solutions and infrastructure for Cisco products. It is committed to driving a competitive advantage for Cisco by ensuring innovation and excellence in manufacturing technology, test, and component engineering, NPI, and closed-loop quality management.
Your Impact
You are a problem solver and looking for continuous product improvement. You love to learn, grow, and work in a constantly evolving environment. You are a self-starter who thrives with learning information quickly and uses resources to research and resolve issues.
Failure Analysis Technical Lead will work with and drive EMS partners to deliver timely and accurate results in duplicating, isolating root cause of customer issues.
Work closely with a multi-functional team of Product Leads, Technical Leads and Customer Support to accelerate replicate customer reported issue.
Articulate key technical issues to stakeholders, sense issues early, identify impact and partner to drive resolution.
Collaborate with PQE/CEs and drive Corrective/ Preventive action. Design Issue, MFG Issue, Process, supplier issue.
Participate in initiatives to enhance existing test strategies, methodologies and test/diagnostic coverage for field returns to aim for improvements in the accuracy of the fault duplication and isolation.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors in electrical or computer engineering with 13+ years of related experience.
Experience with sophisticated high speed board design and board bring-up.
Experience with high-speed network interfaces along with previous hands-on board design expertise and familiarity with board design tools such as Cadence Allegro or similar tools.
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Experience with high-speed SERDES (>=25G) system design, signal integrity issues, and power distribution techniques
Knowledge of Cisco products
Preferred Qualifications
Masters degree in electrical or computer engineering with 10+ years of related experience
Familiarity with leading-edge CPUs such as Intel or AMD, analog and networking components such as PCIe switches, PHY, retimers, voltage regulators.
Experience in unit test methodologies
Experience in Quality Management System methodology
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.
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