In this role, you will serve as a Senior Component Engineer specializing in passive, discrete, and logic components, with a primary focus on capacitors and resistors. You will play a critical role that supports design engineering in component selections ensuring robust power delivery and signal integrity for next-generation networking systems.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Governance: Define and drive technical strategy, including AVL/AML governance for passive components across Cisco's portfolio.
Reliability & Qualification: Establish reliability targets and lead environmental qualification efforts (e.g., THB, HTOL) to mitigate risks in advanced packaging.
Supplier Readiness: Assess end-to-end manufacturing processes and conduct technical audits to ensure supplier capability and readiness.
Resilience & Lifecycle Management: Evaluate supply chain risks and lead mitigation strategies related to component lifecycle and availability.
Failure Analysis: Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and drive systemic quality improvements across factory and field incidents.
Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical expert for complex issues, guiding cross-functional teams and influencing technology roadmaps.

Component Engineering (CE) Responsibilities

Your work will align with core Component Engineering functions, including:

Commodity strategy development and supplier benchmarking
Supplier selection, site qualification, and audits
Component qualification and regulatory compliance
Factory quality issue resolution, field failure analysis, and reliability/risk assessment

Who You'll Work With

You will be part of the Component Quality & Technology (CQT) organization within Global Supply Chain. You will collaborate closely with:

Cisco Business Units and Hardware Design Engineering teams
External component suppliers
Cross-functional supply chain and data analytics teams to solve complex hardware challenges

Who You Are

Collaborative & Driven: Motivated to develop deep expertise across multiple technical domains
Adaptable: Comfortable working in a fast-evolving AI and hardware technology landscape
Independent & Results-Oriented: Strong ownership mindset with the ability to lead cross-functional initiatives to completion

Minimum Qualifications

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Materials Science, or a related field (Master's preferred)
Proven experience in capacitor and/or resistor component engineering, quality, or reliability within networking, server, or high-reliability electronics industries

Technical Expertise

Strong understanding of capacitor and/or resistor technologies and applications
Experience leading failure analysis and root cause investigations
Hands-on experience with accelerated stress testing or ownership of reliability qualification programs

Preferred Qualifications

Technical Skills

Application-level knowledge of component behavior and manufacturing processes (e.g., material purity, plating, assembly)
Familiarity with industry standards and environmental compliance requirements

Communication & Leadership

Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to engineering teams and executive stakeholders
Experience leading technical engagements with global suppliers

Quality & Risk Management

Experience with supplier transfers, technical audits, and driving systemic quality improvements (e.g., CAPA)
Proficiency in risk analysis and field reliability modeling

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.