Component Engineering Technical Leader - Memory

Meet The Team The Cisco Component Quality and Technology team provides outstanding customer value through technical innovation and quality solutions. We are seeking a driven and experienced technical authority in memory and storage components application to join our technical team. You will work directly with Cisco design, manufacturing, and quality engineering teams, as well as component vendors.

Your Impact As a member of our Component Quality and Technology team, you will have the opportunity to serve as Cisco’s domain authority in memory technologies, advising internal and external technical partners on the selection, validation, and qualification of memory components for Cisco products.

You will analyze and influence vendor roadmaps, participate in technical reviews and selection of memory/ storage components for Cisco’s next-generation products. You will influence Cisco’s design and engineering team to ensure the next generation of memory/storage are recommended and integrated into our solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Collaborate with suppliers and Cisco design teams to enhance memory and storage quality and reliability across Cisco platforms.
• Provide technical expertise to support supply chain and quality teams in supplier and component evaluations.
• Lead investigations and end-to-end failure analysis for component and system-level issues, working with vendors to define, implement, and verify corrective and preventive actions (8D, RCA, etc.).
• Experience in memory/storage applications, storage device operations, or related Field Application Engineering.
• Strong familiarity with memory semiconductor fabrication, packaging, and test processes.
• Experience with semiconductor device reliability testing and characterization methods HTOL, ELFR, ESD).
• Collaborate with Cisco’s design team to enhance and improve memory /DDRx reliability, across Cisco platforms.
• Ability to perform root-cause analysis on high-speed interfaces, including PCIe, DDR4/5, LPDDRx, and NVMe/SATA components

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of SSD firmware development and operation is a plus
• Hands-on experience in an SSD storage debug lab environment is a plus

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

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.

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