Cisco
System Hardware Board Design Engineering Lead (PCB) (Onsite)
$151K–$282K
Milpitas, California, US · Onsite Only · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 5+ years with a master’s degree, or 2+ years with a PhD; related experience specified for master’s and PhD alternatives.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering.
About the job
Leads board-level hardware architecture, design, validation, and manufacturing release for high-performance networking products, while guiding technical decisions across teams.
What you'll do
- Define board architecture, technology choices, power-delivery strategy, design methods, and verification strategies.
- Lead hardware initiatives from requirements and architecture through validation, qualification, and manufacturing release; resolve signal-integrity, power-integrity, reliability, thermal, and manufacturing challenges.
- Own subsystem design and validation, coordinate with suppliers and cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and 7+ years’ experience, or Master’s in either field and 5+ years’ related experience, or PhD in either field and 2+ years’ related experience.
- Experience in hardware board design and system-level development, including high-speed digital design, signal integrity, power integrity, and lab-based hardware validation.
- Experience taking board designs from concept through production, including schematics, layouts, troubleshooting, and Cadence Concept and Allegro.
- Experience with networking, server, computer, or high-performance embedded systems, and leading technical projects and cross-functional or multi-site engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with networking product design; co-packaged optics, near-packaged optics, or optical and signal-integrity budget analysis.
- Experience creating test scripts in Python.
Pay
$171,600.00 to $245,000.00 USD base salary; $171,600.00 - $281,800.00 USD base salary; $151,300.00 - $250,900.00 USD base salary
Tools
Cadence Concept, Allegro, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, Ethernet, PCIe, DDR
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