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.


