Meet the Team

Join Cisco's world-class Manufacturing Engineering team, where we support the development and production of industry-leading networking equipment. Our team partners closely with Manufacturing Partners (MPa), business units, and cross-functional teams to ensure seamless product launches, operational excellence, and continuous process innovation. We thrive on collaboration, creative problem-solving, and a relentless commitment to quality.

Your Impact

As a Manufacturing Engineer (ME), you will play a critical role in supporting and leading technical initiatives at Cisco's manufacturing sites. You'll tackle complex engineering challenges, drive process improvements, and champion new technologies to optimize the production of high-end networking equipment. Your expertise will directly impact factory quality, efficiency, and the successful delivery of Cisco products worldwide.

In this role, you will:

• Lead and support technical problem-solving at manufacturing partner sites for Cisco's advanced networking products.
• Perform complex manufacturing engineering tasks, leveraging specialized domain knowledge and business experience.
• Assist in the layout, qualification, and optimization of production and manufacturing lines.
• Execute capacity planning and management to ensure operational readiness and efficiency.
• Identify and support the implementation of new technologies for product launches or process improvements.
• Drive factory quality metrics, including yields, bonepile, quality excursions, cycle time, and process optimization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support business unit manufacturing requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and support for manufacturing partners (MPa) on Cisco products.
• Perform advanced manufacturing engineering tasks, including SMT process, PCBA, and DF assembly support.
• Plan, qualify, and optimize production lines for new and existing products.
• Manage capacity planning and ensure efficient manufacturing operations.
• Identify and implement new technologies to enhance manufacturing processes.
• Monitor and drive key quality indicators-yields, bonepile, quality excursions, and cycle time.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to improve tools, technologies, and processes.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• At least 7 years of experience in manufacturing engineering.
• Experience with SMT Process & Automation, PCBA, and DF assembly/operations.
• Familiarity with standard processes in manufacturing engineering and related disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting high-end networking equipment manufacturing.
• Proven ability to drive process and technology improvements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Familiarity with capacity planning and factory optimization techniques.

Who You'll Work With

• Internal Teams: Business units, product engineering, quality, and operations teams.
• External Partners: Manufacturing partners (MPa) and technology vendors.
• Cross-Functional Stakeholders: Collaborate across supply chain, process engineering, and technology development groups.

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. Simply put – we power the future.

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.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter. Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.