Monday, December 22, 2008

Currently we only have a Camera Design Position Available with ETG, check back in a couple of weeks for new opportunities -- Happy Holidays!!!!!

This opening is for a Senior Hardware Engineer to design High Definition Video Cameras for the Consumer TelePresence Unit of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group (ETG).

Consumer TelePresence is a new Business Unit being incubated in ETG, leveraging technology developed for our enterprise TelePresence product, the fastest growing product in Cisco’s history, CTBU will bring to market a breakthrough, consumer version of TelePresence which will provide a unique, in-person experience when communicating with friends and relatives over the internet.

Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Marketing to develop product proposals.
- Specify requirements for high definition video cameras. Select the key components and implement the design.
- Generate system functional specifications. Gain consensus on the key trade offs and drive their adoption.
- Develop detailed design specifications. Implement board, and programmable logic. Hands-on debug and integration.
- Set direction on hardware qualification & manufacturing test.
- Work closely with a cross functional team, from concept through system integration to product launch.

Experience Required:
- 3 years experience developing high-volume consumer products.
- 5 years camera system design, including specification and qualification of sensors, image pipeline, power supplies, and packaging.
- Experience implementing imaging algorithms.
- Hands-on experience with determination of sensor quality.
- Expert at PCB & FPGA (Verilog) design and test benching.
- Ability to debug and root cause complex system level bugs.
- Expertise in designing for EMI/EMC, Safety, ESD, world-wide compliance, and signal integrity verification.
- Excellent documentation, written and verbal communication skills.
- MSEE/CS combined with 7-10 years of related experience, or BSEE/CS combined with 10+ yrs related experience.


Preferred:
- Highly desired: experience with lighting, lenses & motors.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Senior Microphone Design Engineer

This opening is for a Senior Hardware Engineer, to Design Audio Microphone Arrays for the Consumer TelePresence Unit of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group (ETG).

Consumer TelePresence is a new Business Unit being incubated in ETG, leveraging technology developed for our enterprise TelePresence product, the fastest growing product in Cisco’s history, CTBU will bring to market a breakthrough, consumer version of TelePresence which will provide a unique, in-person experience when communicating with friends and relatives over the internet.

Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Marketing to develop product proposals.
- Specify requirements for microphone arrays. Select the key hardware and software IP, and implement the design.
- Generate system functional specifications. Gain consensus on the key trade offs and drive their adoption.
- Develop detailed design specifications. Implement boards, and programmable logic designs. Hands-on debug and integration.
- Set direction on hardware qualification & manufacturing test.
- Work closely with a cross functional team, from concept through system integration to product launch.

Experience Required:
- 3-5 years experience developing high-volume consumer products.
- Expertise and proven track record with microphone technology, including MEMS transducers and algorithms for microphone-array processing, echo cancellation, and noise reduction.
- Expert at optimizing mechanical enclosure acoustic performance.
- Design experiments to set up, test, calibrate and qualify microphone array implementations.
- Ability to debug and root cause complex system level bugs.
- Experience with board and (Verilog) FPGA design.
- Excellent documentation, written and verbal communication skills.
- MSEE/CS combined with 7-10 years of related experience, or BSEE/CS combined with 10+ yrs related experience.

Senior Camera Design Engineer

This opening is for a Senior Hardware Engineer to design High Definition Video Cameras for the Consumer TelePresence Unit of Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group (ETG).

Consumer TelePresence is a new Business Unit being incubated in ETG, leveraging technology developed for our enterprise TelePresence product, the fastest growing product in Cisco’s history, CTBU will bring to market a breakthrough, consumer version of TelePresence which will provide a unique, in-person experience when communicating with friends and relatives over the internet.

Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Marketing to develop product proposals.
- Specify requirements for high definition video cameras. Select the key components and implement the design.
- Generate system functional specifications. Gain consensus on the key trade offs and drive their adoption.
- Develop detailed design specifications. Implement board, and programmable logic. Hands-on debug and integration.
- Set direction on hardware qualification & manufacturing test.
- Work closely with a cross functional team, from concept through system integration to product launch.

Experience Required:
- 3 years experience developing high-volume consumer products.
- 5 years camera system design, including specification and qualification of sensors, image pipeline, power supplies, and packaging.
- Experience implementing imaging algorithms.
- Hands-on experience with determination of sensor quality.
- Expert at PCB & FPGA (Verilog) design and test benching.
- Ability to debug and root cause complex system level bugs.
- Expertise in designing for EMI/EMC, Safety, ESD, world-wide compliance, and signal integrity verification.
- Excellent documentation, written and verbal communication skills.
- MSEE/CS combined with 7-10 years of related experience, or BSEE/CS combined with 10+ yrs related experience.


Preferred:
- Highly desired: experience with lighting, lenses & motors.

UPDATE ON OPEN POSITIONS IN ETG

Please note the positions that were posted previous to this date have been filled or are no longer priorities to be filled right now. Today I am posting two new positions that are available, both are hardware design engineer positions.

As I have new position become available I will post them so please keep you eye on this blog for up to date job postings with ETG.