Hardware Engineer - Power

Job Description

Provides leadership in the development of Power Systems for Cisco products.

Knowledge, skills & responsibilities include the following:

Knowledge & Skills

· Self-motivated, able to work with no direct supervision

· Expertise in most power conversion topologies

· Proficient in analog, digital circuits and components, plus knowledge of digital control, control methods, and regression testing

· Strong knowledge of components, materials and manufacturing processes, and quality assurance (QA) and DFM

· Familiar with ME and thermal design in power supply

· Expertise in EMC, safety compliance design and test

Responsibilities

· Responsible for the specification, design, development, implementation, validation & sustaining of Power Systems for Cisco products, and able to handle multi projects simultaneously

· Generate power system and subsystem functional specifications with internal cross-functional teams for clear definition and product requirements.

· Define, direct and participate in power design verification tests.

· Design/ develop power systems to meet international regulatory requirements, EMC requirements, reliability requirements, environmental requirements, and leading telecom industry requirements including NEBS.

· Study power systems/product feasibility in conjunction with COG and delivery targets.

· Lead and enhance power product design/development processes for high efficiency and highly reliable power products.

· Lead resolutions for power related field/product problems including FA and customer issues on assigned projects.

· Provide technical documents for power RFQ package and review vendor’s technical capabilities/ development processes for the power project team’s vendor selection and program award process.

· Lead front end power developments with vendors in line with Cisco power development and quality process, identify possible issues proactively, and resolve them to meet committed deliverables through regular project team meetings and follow-ups.

· Evaluate new potential power conversion techniques/new power components to improve power efficiencies and power density.

· Interface cross-functionally and lead team collaboration globally, extending beyond the work group.

· Resolve conflicts by fostering team communications.

· Translate BU level goals into individual work assignments.

· Ensure that all hardware engineering projects, initiatives, and processes are in conformance with organization's established policies and objectives.

· Perform design reviews of schematics, BOMs, layout and routing.

· Perform and review failure analysis (FA), root cause analysis (RCA), and corrective action reports (CAR), and 8D reports.