Role Summary As a Customer Quality Engineer (CQE) at Cisco, you will serve as a high-level technical authority and strategic partner for our most critical customers. In this role, you will bridge the gap between the Engineering, Global Supply Chain, and Customer Experience organizations. You will be responsible for driving proactive quality strategies as the customer’s advocate, leading high-impact failure investigations, and influencing executive stakeholders through data-driven insights to ensure the reliability and performance of Cisco’s global install base.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic Quality Engagement: Develop and drive a customer-centric hardware quality engagement model for strategic accounts, ensuring end-to-end visibility and transparency on all quality-related matters.
- Executive Technical Leadership: Lead monthly external hardware quality performance deep dives, providing actionable metrics, comprehensive issue summaries, and expert-level Root Cause Analysis (RCA) discussions for key customer stakeholders.
- Cross-Functional Orchestration: Coordinate complex customer communications regarding corrective and customer mitigation actions (ECO, PCN, Field Notice), serving as the primary liaison between Account Teams, CX, Operations, Quality, and Engineering for these issues.
- Field Mitigation & Remediation: Lead field remediation actions for high-impact events in key customer’s networks. Monitor customer’s in-service and early-life failure activity, and execute tailored mitigation strategies for large-scale, complex network environments.
- Operational Integrity: Implement and track field mitigation agreements, including rigorous monitoring across global service depots and networks to minimize customer risk and downtime.
- Proactive Analytics: Apply advanced statistical methods and data analytics to uncover actionable insights, drive proactive issue identification, and conduct customer site audits to resolve installation and operational challenges.
- Engineering Integration: Partner with quality and design engineering teams to maintain deep, expert-level knowledge of product architecture, failure mechanisms, and quality trends across the customer install base.
- Escalation Management: Provide in-region support for critical escalations, assessing technical impact and executing rapid, effective field actions to resolve high-priority quality issues.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or related with 8+ years of related experience, or a Master’s Degree or related with 6+ years of related experience.
- Domain Expertise: Extensive, recognized experience in Product or Customer Quality Engineering with a deep understanding of product architecture and complex failure mechanisms.
- Strategic Acumen: Proven ability to analyze the upstream and downstream impacts of technical changes, providing strategic recommendations that improve product performance and reliability.
- Leadership & Influence: Demonstrated success leading multiple high-priority projects and acting as a technical lead in cross-functional, matrixed environments.
- Advanced Analytics: Exceptional ability to apply statistical modeling and data analytics to identify innovative, long-term solutions to persistent quality challenges.
- Communication: Superior ability to influence and align executive-level stakeholders through compelling, data-driven storytelling and clear, professional technical reporting.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related with 8+ years of related experience, or Master's Degree with 6+ years of related experience
- Extensive experience in Product or Customer Quality Engineering with deep understanding of product architecture and complex failure mechanisms
- Proven ability to analyze upstream and downstream impacts of technical changes and provide strategic recommendations to improve product performance and reliability
- Demonstrated success leading multiple high-priority projects and acting as a technical lead in cross-functional, matrixed environments
- Exceptional ability to apply statistical modeling and data analytics to identify long-term solutions to persistent quality challenges
- Superior ability to influence and align executive-level stakeholders through data-driven storytelling and clear technical reporting
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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