Senior Hardware Engineer, Cisco Meraki
Smart Cameras
$165.7-232.9k
Eligible to receive annual bonuses
Cloud-based network platform
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Cloud-based network platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$165.7-232.9k
Eligible to receive annual bonuses
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify technology so passionate people can focus on their mission.
Role
Who you are
- End-to-end development on products of reasonable complexity - the more, the better!
- Technical EE responsibility and ownership for system level design
- Technical program management experience
- Designed and developed camera technologies
- Ability to collaborate with CAD, BSP, Power, Mechanical, Signal integrity, and Manufacturing teams
- BS and/or MS or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, a related field, or equivalent
- Experience working with Asia-based partners
- Able to travel up to 20% to Taiwan and China
- Familiarity with the JDM and/or CM working model
- Cultural competence and understanding of Taiwanese and Chinese cultures
Desirable
- Extensive experience building hardware products that include camera technologies
- Deep understanding of CMOS image sensor operation and system design
- Knowledgeable with optics, have participated in lens selection and qualification
- Experience with sophisticated camera production methodologies such as active alignment
- Have worked with embedded IoT or Mobile SoCs with dedicated ISP blocks
- Experience with computer vision and AI co-processors
- Have worked alongside image quality teams and participated in video image tuning qualification
What the job involves
- We are seeking an electrical engineering technical leader with experience in camera development to help build the future Meraki Vision (MV) hardware
- Our Hardware Engineers lead multiple products and control every aspect of hardware creation
- They are the principal architects of our hardware products and will touch each part of a program by guiding decisions in industrial design, sourcing, test development, packaging, detailed design, and much more
- From green light to sustaining hand-off, the Hardware Engineer’s sphere of influence and responsibility touches nearly all aspects of development
- Develop architecture, author user documentation, and lead engineering partner teams for our new Smart Camera portfolio
- Validate and iterate on layout and schematics. Own technical reviews and approvals
- Develop test plans, acceptance criteria, and quality processes
- Drive innovation across the MV portfolio, including but not limited to: System/Board Design, Circuit Board Layout, Hardware Automation, Validation and Test, Signal Integrity and Power Design
- Build and supervise product schedule through NPI, coordinating with ME, sourcing, packaging, certification, and quality teams. Provide technical guidance as needed
- Lead our JDM partner’s engineering and PM teams
- Interface and collaborate with firmware resources
- Work with product management, supply chain, and marketing to coordinate launch plans
- Collaborate with quality and sourcing through sustaining production. Lead FA as required
- Example Projects...
- A power test reveals poor efficiency in a DCDC converter used for a primary voltage rail
- The Hardware Engineer works with the Meraki sourcing team to meet the power device vendor and finds that a newer, cheaper, and more efficient part is about to be released
- The Hardware Engineer kicks off design updates while the sourcing team member arranges enough sample parts for the next build
- During new design testing, efficiency is improved and additional thermal headroom is gained
- The sourcing team has collected roadmap and technology updates from several lens and sensor partners
- The Hardware Engineer weighs performance, features, cost, and compatibility of the upcoming parts and builds a menu of potential configurations for the next generation of Meraki MV Smart Cameras
- After selecting primary candidates, the Hardware Engineer works with the JDM partner to build a proof-of-concept device and begins early concept qualification
- After achieving high confidence in product viability, the program is green lit and the NPI process begins
- Mockups for a new camera model are showing IR light reflecting off a cosmetic design feature back into the lens and causing degraded image quality
- The Hardware Engineer meets with the ID team to define which cosmetic aspects are most important and sketches out a few ideas to address the issue
- Together, the group brainstorms a few variations on the idea to try
- Mockups are built and tested to find successful elimination of the IR reflection, and the new design is updated for the next NPI build
Application process
- Application window is expected to close on 1/29/2025
Our take
Cisco Meraki, formed from the acquisition of Meraki by Cisco in 2012, is an industry-leading cloud-managed IT company. Its technology provides unified management of mobile devices, Macs, PCs, and entire networks, all from a centralised dashboard.
Originally founded in 2006, Meraki's transformation to Cisco Meraki allowed it to reach more than 2 million active networks, and over 7 million devices globally, on top of gaining the strength of Cisco’s resources. The company has kept pace with the rise of hybrid workforces and multi-cloud environments with its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering, which bridges networking and security so that workers have seamless, secure access wherever they are working from.
Operating in a growing industry, there is plenty of opportunity for Cisco Meraki to expand its operations, and to further develop its offerings. The company supports a range of clients, encompassing roughly 75% of Fortune 500 companies, and including names such as Audi, Applebee's, and Colliers International.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2012
$40m
SERIES D
Feb 2011
$15m
SERIES C
Total funding: $80m
Company values
- Simplify everything - We simplify complex problems to make it easy for people to work with us and to work with each other.
- Care deeply - We care about what matters for our users, our partners and our colleagues. We focus on building meaningful relationships and creating great partnerships.
- Everybody in - We are a team that works as one toward our goals. We listen to each other, share ideas, and invite different opinions. Everybody is accepted and valued here.
- Be brave - We push boundaries and experiment. We learn from our experiences and failures and help each other grow. We have the grit to get the job done and we are never done getting better.
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Brett Hull
(Head of Engineering (Not Founder))Previously Research Associate and Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and Software Development Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cisco Meraki
Jessica Gilbert (Head of Inclusion and Collaboration)
- We take pride in our supportive, inclusive community and work environment. Every Merakian is welcome to join our employee resource groups - Women of Meraki, Latinx, Mosaic, CAAN, and QFAM to name a few.
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