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About the role
This role requires the employee to work onsite at the San Jose, CA office location. Up to 10% of local and/or international travel may be required Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Experience leading quality, reliability, systems engineering, or customer issue resolution for complex, high-volume networking, switching, optical, or hyperscale data-center products
- Experience driving complex technical investigations from customer symptom and data collection through root-cause identification, corrective action, and verification of effectiveness
- Experience with Ethernet switching and optical communication technologies, including switch ASICs, high-speed SerDes, signal integrity, optical modules, DSPs, link budgets, and system validation
- Experience leading multi-functional response to critical customer cases, field partner concerns, product defects, or interoperability issues
More about this role
The application window is expected to close on: 12/01/2026
This role requires the employee to work onsite at the San Jose, CA office location. Up to 10% of local and/or international travel may be required
The Networking Hardware Engineering (NHE) group creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally.
NHE 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 difficulty across highly complex system development programs, shaping the future of hyperscale infrastructure.
- Define and drive the end-to-end quality strategy for next generation hyperscale switching, routing, wireless access points, AI servers, and optical platforms, from architecture and development through qualification, high-volume production, and customer deployment.
- Lead resolution of complex product quality issues...
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