# Engineering Technician

The application window is expected to close on: 11/27/2026This role will require the employee to work onsite at the San Jose, CA location. Meet the team Networking Hardware Engineering (NHE) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. As an Engineering Technician in Cisco's Service Provider Routing Hardware team, you will support critical hardware engineering activities across design, prototype bring-up, quality control, and PCB/PCBA rework. Working closely with multi-functional development teams, you will operate sophisticated lab equipment, perform component-level rework, and conduct operational test and visual inspections to verify hardware prototypes. Your Impact: Perform component-level rework, trace modifications, jumper wiring, and precision hand soldering on fine-pitch surface mount (SMT), thru-hole, and advanced packages (QFN, DFN, SOIC, and BGA) using inspection microscopes. Safely set up, operate, and maintain advanced lab machinery and rework tools, including BGA rework stations, hot-air systems, soldering stations, and inspection/X-ray tools. Generate and mainta

- **Id**: 3431014
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-engineering-technician>
- **Role**: Field & Service
- **Role family**: Field & Service
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Milpitas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T06:12:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 15
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6490
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 285
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.474
- **Repost share**: 0.091
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 90700
- **Max**: 115600
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 115600

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 15

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T00:31:02Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 56
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.624
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 14
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 115600
- **Is top pay**: yes

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