ASIC Engineer - QMS PM

Meet the Team:

Cisco’s ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) Engineering team is at the heart of our networking innovation. They are responsible for the end-to-end design, development, and verification of high-performance, custom silicon that powers the world’s most critical network infrastructure.

By engineering bespoke chips, the team enables unparalleled throughput, energy efficiency, and advanced security features, ensuring our routers, switches, and optical platforms can handle the massive data demands of today’s digital landscape. Working at the intersection of hardware architecture and software integration, this team is essential to maintaining Cisco’s leadership in networking technology, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in silicon design to solve complex connectivity challenges.

Your Impact:

The QMS & Change Management PM is responsible for managing and continuously improving the Quality Management System (QMS) and Change Management processes within a fabless semiconductor operations environment. The role ensures compliance with quality standards, customer requirements, and industry regulations while driving effective change control, risk management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

The successful candidate will partner with cross-functional teams to evaluate, approve, implement, and monitor changes affecting manufacturing processes, equipment, materials, products, suppliers, and documentation to ensure minimal impact on product quality, reliability, yield, and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Management System (QMS)

• Maintain, improve, and ensure effectiveness of the Quality Management System (QMS).

• Develop, review, and control quality procedures, work instructions, specifications, and records.

• Ensure compliance with:

• International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001

• JEDEC standard on Change Management

• Customer-specific quality requirements

• Plan, coordinate, and facilitate internal, external, customer, and certification audits.

• Lead audit findings closure and track corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

• Conduct Management Review meetings and monitor quality objectives and KPIs.

• Support non-conformance management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.

Change Management & Change Control

• Manage end-to-end Change Management processes including Engineering Change Orders (ECO)

• Coordinate Change Control Board (CCB) reviews and approvals.

• Ensure all changes are evaluated, documented, approved, and implemented according to established procedures.

• Monitor implementation status and verify completion of required actions before change closure.

• Recommend mitigation plans and qualification requirements to minimize operational and quality risks.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Communicate approved changes and ensure stakeholder alignment throughout implementation.

• Support customer change notifications and approvals when required.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive initiatives to improve QMS effectiveness and change management efficiency.

• Analyze quality and process performance data to identify improvement opportunities.

• Develop and deliver training related to QMS, document control, CAPA, and change management processes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Electronics, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Quality Management, or related discipline.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Quality Management, Quality Systems, Quality Assurance, or Change Management within a semiconductor manufacturing environment.

• Proven experience managing QMS processes, audits, CAPA, document control, and change management activities.

• Experience supporting semiconductor wafer fabrication, assembly, test, or advanced packaging operations is highly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience leading change control boards and performing change impact assessments.

• Strong understanding of semiconductor manufacturing processes, Quality Management Systems ISO 9001, Change Management, and Audit management and compliance requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Risk assessment methodologies

• Statistical analysis and process improvement techniques

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Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

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