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Senior Mechanical Engineer

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+ Location:San Jose, California, US

+ Alternate LocationNA

+ Area of InterestEngineer - Hardware

+ Compensation Range152400 USD - 221800 USD

+ Job TypeProfessional

+ Technology InterestNetworking

+ Job Id1451663

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The application window expected to close on: 11/28/2025

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received

Meet the Team

The Data Center Networking Group is developing the Nexus 9000 line of data center and cloud switches that feature application awareness to make the network infrastructure flexible and agile for dynamic response to application needs and virtual machine workload mobility. The Common Hardware Group (CHG) delivers silicon, optics, and hardware platforms for Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products. We design the networking hardware for Enterprises and Service Providers of various sizes, the Public Sector, and Non-Profit Organizations across the world. Cisco Silicon One (#CiscoSiliconOne) is the only unifying silicon architecture in the market that enables customers to deploy the best-of-breed silicon from Top of Rack (TOR) switches all the way through web scale data centers and across service providers, enterprise networks, and data centers with a fully unified routing and switching portfolio.

Your Impact

As an experienced Mechanical Engineer you would be responsible for mechanical architecture, analyzing the technical specifications and system mechanical requirements to resolve the best approach, feasibility of schedule and cost constraints for mechanical system & thermal solutions. Drive innovation and continuous improvement within Cisco by harnessing new testing technologies and methodologies. Provide outstanding support to external and internal customers, team members, and other persons and functional group through technical project collaboration. Self-motivated candidate that will lead and take ownership of assigned projects, exhibit strong written and verbal communication skills, and can work well in a complementary team environment.

+ You will lead the mechanical design for ToR chassis, Modular chassis, PCB board placement, system thermal solutions.

+ Be involved in the component selection, assembly process definition in production, thru working together with manufacturing team.

+ You will involve reliability testing, mainly for MDVT and EMI for design quality assurance

Minimum Qualifications

+ Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related degree with 6+ years of relevant experience

+ 3+ years of experience on 3D mechanical design tools, such as Creo, NX

+ Previous experience of PCB board placement

+ Previous experience working with mechanical material properties, metal, plastic, TIM, EMI gasket

+ Previous experience in high speed I/O connector, board to board connector, cable connection design

Preferred Qualifications

+ Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering or related degree with 3+ years of relevant experience

+ Experience with mechanical tolerance analysis

+ Experience with stress analysis tools (ie. Ansys) or thermal tools such as Flotherm

+ Fundamental understanding of reliability lab measurement equipment: EMC scan, ESD gun, shaking table, environment chamber, acoustic equipment.

+ Previous experience and knowledge of power connector, and bus bar design

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