Leader, Supplier Quality Engineer

Meet the Team Our team sits at the heart of Cisco’s hardware innovation, bridging the gap between cutting-edge design and high-volume manufacturing. We are a global, cross-functional group of engineering leaders dedicated to ensuring the highest quality standards across our semiconductor supply chain. By collaborating closely with internal stakeholders and external OSAT partners, we maintain the operational excellence required to power the world’s most advanced networking technologies. We pride ourselves on a culture of technical rigor, continuous improvement, and collaborative problem-solving. Joining us means playing a pivotal role in delivering the reliable, high-performance silicon solutions that form the foundation of the internet

Your Impact You will spearhead our semiconductor quality and manufacturing strategy, providing leadership to global teams while driving excellence across our substrate and OSAT operations. You will champion continuous improvement initiatives by leveraging advanced statistical analysis and quality methodologies to resolve complex yield and reliability challenges. By managing critical supplier relationships, you will mitigate supply chain risks and enforce rigorous performance standards to ensure seamless product delivery. You will influence cross-functional decision-making, mentoring engineering talent to foster a culture of accountability and technical innovation. Ultimately, your leadership will directly impact the reliability of Cisco’s product portfolio and our long-term operational success.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical, Materials, or related field) from an accredited university.
• Minimum 15 years of experience in semiconductor substrate, OSAT, testing process, quality engineering, and supply chain management.
• Proven people management and team leadership experience, including leading cross-functional and global teams.
• Strong background in quality systems and quality methodologies, including SPC, OCAP, FMEA, and APQP.
• Extensive experience in supplier quality management, supply chain risk assessment, and driving supplier performance improvement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of semiconductor substrate, OSAT processes, and troubleshooting methodologies.
• Demonstrated leadership in working cross-functionally with Manufacturing Operations, Assembly Process, Bumping Process, Product Engineering, and Supplier Engineering teams.
• Strong statistical analysis capability with experience handling large data sets.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience mentoring and developing engineering teams.

SiOps

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. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.