Application window is expected to close 4/10/2025

Meet the Team

You will be part of the Component Quality and Technology team within Supply Chain Operations, collaborating with cross-organizational teams, including Silicon Operations, Product Operations, and Product Quality engineers. This team works with partner organizations such as the Corporate Hardware Group to bring complex Cisco ASIC & Switch products to market. You will also engage closely with engineering bring-up and diagnostics teams, test & verification teams, and Product Quality teams to identify and analyze key component issues early in the NPI or Production processes.

Your Impact

As a Technical Leader in Silicon Reliability, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of Cisco's Silicon One ASIC products.

• Deliver component Si (ASICs) quality and reliability for Cisco’s switch system ASIC products.

• Analyze silicon component failures at the system level and lead silicon debug and fault isolation efforts.

• Study silicon interactions with other system-level components and drive data analytics and root cause analysis.

• Propose silicon reliability data collection methods, create reliability models, and analyze field failure risks.

• Collaborate with Supply Chain organizations to improve component quality and DPPM rates.

• Excellent problem-solving and effective conflict resolution skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related fields.

• 12+ years of experience in IC Quality, Reliability, test, bring-up, validation, and characterization.

• Experience in IC testing, reliability methodologies & processes, and test data analytics using AIML methods.

• Hands on experience of IC component qualification, reliability failure modes, and fault isolation techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MSEE (or higher) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related fields.

• Familiarity with DFT and system-level test and diagnostics.

• Hands-on expertise in analyzing component failures at a system level.

• Proven ability to drive collaboration and leadership across technical teams.

• Strong teamwork, collaboration, and cross-functional communication skills.

• Experience in working with cross-functional leadership to improve existing processes.

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