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About the role
This role requires the employee to work onsite at the San Jose, CA office location. 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.
What they're looking for
- Experience leading programs involving custom ASICs, silicon development, SoCs, or advanced semiconductor technologies
- Experience with driving executive-level decision-making, partner alignment, and large programs across matrixed organizations without direct organizational authority
More about this role
The application window is expected to close on: 10/20/2026
This role requires the employee to work onsite at the San Jose, CA office location.
The Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally.
Within CHG, the Systems & Optics Team (SaO) serves as the execution engine for Cisco's most strategic hardware initiatives. We partner across silicon, engineering, product management, operations, supply chain, manufacturing, and executive leadership to transform technology strategy into successful product delivery. Our mission is to provide program leadership, governance, transparency, and execution rigor across highly complex system development programs, shaping the future of hyperscale infrastructure.
- Direct and own the end-to-end execution of Cisco's most critical hyperscale system programs, guiding products from concept definition through customer deployment.
- Lead large-scale, multi-year programs involving system architecture, custom ASICs/silicon development, hardware engineering, software, operations, and manufacturing.
- Establish executive-level...
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