Senior Component Engineer
Cisco · Taipei, Taiwan · Supply Chain and Manufacturing Ops
About this role
Cisco is hiring a senior-level Hardware Engineer in the software engineering function based in Taipei, Taiwan. The posting calls out experience with Compliance, Data Analytics.
- Role
- Hardware Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Taipei, Taiwan
- Department
- Supply Chain and Manufacturing Ops
- Posted
- Apr 28, 2026
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Job description
from Cisco careersIn this role, you will serve as a Senior Component Engineer specializing in passive, discrete, and logic components, with a primary focus on capacitors and resistors. You will play a critical role that supports design engineering in component selections ensuring robust power delivery and signal integrity for next-generation networking systems.
Key Responsibilities
• Strategy & Governance: Define and drive technical strategy, including AVL/AML governance for passive components across Cisco's portfolio.
• Reliability & Qualification: Establish reliability targets and lead environmental qualification efforts (e.g., THB, HTOL) to mitigate risks in advanced packaging.
• Supplier Readiness: Assess end-to-end manufacturing processes and conduct technical audits to ensure supplier capability and readiness.
• Resilience & Lifecycle Management: Evaluate supply chain risks and lead mitigation strategies related to component lifecycle and availability.
• Failure Analysis: Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and drive systemic quality improvements across factory and field incidents.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as the primary technical expert for complex issues, guiding cross-functional teams and influencing technology roadmaps.
Component Engineering (CE) Responsibilities
Your work will align with core Component Engineering functions, including:
• Commodity strategy development and supplier benchmarking
• Supplier selection, site qualification, and audits
• Component qualification and regulatory compliance
• Factory quality issue resolution, field failure analysis, and reliability/risk assessment