What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Antenna Hardware Design Engineer position at Cisco Meraki?
The application window is expected to close on 5/2/2025
This position requires that you commute to our office in San Francisco, CA 2 days a week to our antenna lab and that you commute to our office in San Jose, CA 2 days a week. There is flexibility.
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About The Role
At Cisco-Meraki, we know that technology can connect us, empower us, and drive us. By simplifying powerful technology, we can free passionate people to focus on their mission. With the fastest-growing cloud-managed networking team in the world, our products and technology architecture are changing the face of enterprise networking and making cloud-managed IT a reality.
We are looking to add a new member to our antenna team. In joining us, you will help in our mission to provide innovative antenna solutions to our large portfolio of wireless devices. Our current devices include technologies such as Wi-Fi, Cellular, IoT, UWB, and GNSS, but we are always on the look for the next breakthrough in technology to be incorporated into our portfolio.
Your Impact
The antenna engineer will be responsible for the antennas that are part of our products from the definition phase to shipping. The process includes simulations, prototyping, measurements (in the field, in the lab, active and passive), writing antenna specifications and test plans, guiding and reviewing the work of our partners, reviewing compliance lab reports, providing technical materials to the marketing and sales teams, and leading the efforts to solve any antenna related problems that may surface.
- Interaction with cross-functional teams, JDM partners, antenna vendors, compliance labs, and other organizations.
- Mentoring junior antenna engineers for lab related activities such as the use of soldering stations, microscopes, network and spectrum analyzers, RF connectors, attenuators, PCB designs, and the tools required to build reliable prototypes.
- To be confident and familiar with the processes, practices, and tools required to build and run accurate simulations models (XFDTD, HFSS, CST, etc.), measuring material properties, building prototypes, taking measurements in the anechoic chamber (MVG and ETS systems), and generating relevant reports and presentations.
- Exploring new technologies and processes to be implemented in the next cycle of Cisco products that could also be conducive to patents and publications.
- Availability to attend to evening video-calls throughout the week with our partners in Asia.
Minimum Qualifications
- MS in electrical engineering with emphasis in electromagnetism and antenna design with 5 years of industry experience or Ph.D. in electrical engineering with emphasis in electromagnetism and antenna design with 2 years of relevant experience
- Deep understanding of electromagnetism and antenna design concepts, and experience with antenna designs for Wi-Fi/BT, Cellular, UWB, GNSS, and antenna arrays.
- End-to-end product development experience on at least one product from design to shipment
Preferred Qualifications
- Basic level of RF (design and testing), programming (Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW) and basic understanding of EMC, ESD, Surge, and radio compliance testing
- Exposure to working with Contract Manufacturing (CM) model and/or Joint-Development Model (JDM)
- When required by our projects, the antenna engineer may be required to work on an extended schedule to complete urgent tasks and should also be available for occasional international travel to Asia (up to 5%).
- The ideal candidate should demonstrate strong communication and collaboration skills, enjoy interpersonal interactions, and thrive in a team environment. They should possess a passion for learning and teaching, coupled with a proactive, "let's do it" attitude.
Does this sound like you? We'd love to hear from you.
We encourage you to drop us a line even if you do not have all the points listed above. That is a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great leaders come from a diverse set of backgrounds.
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