NEW!!! Manager of Peripheral Hardware Engineering - TelePresence

We have a current opening for a Manager of Peripheral Hardware Engineering
to work in the TelePresence System Business Unit (TSBU) of our Emerging Technologies Group - ETG.

TelePresence is a virtual presence experience that uses advanced visual, audio, and interactive technologies to create an in person experience at a virtual conference table. TelePresence is one of the more recent examples of how Cisco is changing the way we work, live, play, and learn.

Job Description:

Reporting to the Director of Hardware of TSBU, the Manager of Peripheral Hardware Engineering will be responsible for the following:

• Build world-class engineering team
• Work with product management, market development, and customers to develop, refine, validate, and prioritize product requirements and product roadmaps
• Define peripheral hardware architecture and system level designs based on product requirements and business model.
• Work with software management to ensure a complete component is developed and ready for system integration.
• Develop product hardware functional specifications
• Develop product prototype
• Make strategic trade-offs in make-buy-partner technology decisions
• Drive to develop and protect intellectual property for market leadership.
• Develop, and adhere to, resource plans, schedule, and budget

Requirements:
• Previous multiple year experience in the development of ODM/JDM custom peripherals
• Experience with display, camera, and audio system component development
• Experience in tracking technology roadmaps and developing development strategies consistent with supply base offerings.
• Entrepreneurial drive, demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast paced environment
• Strong technical leadership and management skills, ability to deliver results with a small, fast-paced teams, and ability to work across teams
• Experience in building high performing engineering teams
• Strong inter-personal skills and teamwork
• Ability to work and thrive in a true "startup" mode

Other desired qualifications include:
• Work experience with successful startups
• Experience with visual communications systems.