Hardware Sensor Systems Engineer (Electrical) - Cisco Meraki.

About Cisco Meraki

At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect us, empower us, and drive us. By simplifying powerful technology, we can free passionate people to focus on their mission.

As the fastest-growing cloud-managed networking team in the world, our products and technology architecture are changing the face of enterprise networking and making cloud-managed IT a reality.

About The Role

We are on the lookout for a Hardware Systems Engineer with a passion for innovation and a strong understanding of sensors and embedded systems.

As a Hardware Systems Engineer at Cisco Meraki, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of our hardware portfolio, playing a pivotal role in the conceptualization, development, and manufacturing of our Meraki Sensors (MT) products.

You will be instrumental in the early stages of the product life cycle, focusing on proof-of-concept work, detailed design, engineering validation, and preparing the product for manufacturing.

Your expertise will drive the success of our hardware programs, and you will act as a liaison with our partners in Taiwan to ensure seamless collaboration throughout the project duration.

Please note : This position requires that you commute to a Bay area office (San Francisco, CA or San Jose, CA) 3 days per week and up to 15% travel to Taiwan.

What We Offer :

A dynamic role with the opportunity to work on exciting system engineering problems and make a real impact at scale.

A chance to be engaged in a variety of functions both internally and with external partners.

An environment that encourages continuous learning and scope expansion.

What You Will Do

• Own the end-to-end hardware development process in a JDM model
• Architect new sensor products, then supervise schematic, layout, and testing work
• Optimize systems for cost, size, and energy consumption
• Develop comprehensive test plans and acceptance criteria where none may exist
• Engage with silicon partners to evaluate new technologies that could solve customer problems
• Efficiently conduct proof-of-concept work to validate concepts and pitch ideas for products
• Build and track hardware schedules through NPI

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience working on hardware devices as an electrical engineer
• Have taken multiple products through end-to-end development - the more, the better!
• Technical program management skills
• BS and / or MS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent experience
• Experience working with Asia-based partners.
• Able to travel up to 15% to Taiwan.

Bonus Points For

• Experience building battery-powered hardware products that include a wireless radio
• Specific sensor expertise

Does this sound like you? We’d love to hear from you

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That’s a lot of different areas of responsibility.

We will help you pick them up because we believe that great leaders come from a diverse set of backgrounds.

About Cisco

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