This is a senior-level technical leadership position for someone passionate about defining and advancing hardware quality standards across Cisco’s high-performance portfolio, including switching, routing, and AI data center compute products
Job Summary
This is a senior-level technical leadership position for someone passionate about defining and advancing hardware quality standards across Cisco’s high-performance portfolio, including switching, routing, and AI data center compute products.
Lead high-stakes root cause analysis and corrective action programs, addressing critical failures across design, manufacturing, and supply chain to ensure both immediate remediation and long-term architectural robustness.
Advise executive leadership on product roadmaps, represent Cisco’s quality commitments to key customers, and elevate the engineering community through mentorship and industry-wide influence.
Matching Summary
This is a senior-level technical leadership position for someone passionate about defining and advancing hardware quality standards across Cisco’s high-performance portfolio, including switching, routing, and AI data center compute products.
Salary
Base: $273,200.00 - $442,600.00; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match, paid parental leave, disability, life insurance, stock units, paid time off
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Root cause investigations
Defensive design principles
Hardware quality standards
Field telemetry data analysis
Executive-level customer representation
Nice-to-have
Industry recognition
Mentorship and influence
Collaborative teamwork
Fearless innovation
Key Requirements
Bachelor's degree with 15+ years of experience
Master's degree with 14+ years of experience
PhD with 10+ years of experience
15+ years of board and system failure domain experience
Experience resolving systemic quality issues at scale
Expert-level customer and field issue investigation skills