Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cisco is a technology company connecting and protecting organizations through data and infrastructure solutions. The Data Science Analyst will support the Optics Operations team by maintaining manufacturing and test data infrastructure, analyzing operational data, and developing reporting and data extraction workflows for continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Perform data hygiene and reconciliation activities, including identification and resolution of missing, duplicate, malformed, or inconsistent records
• Analyze test and manufacturing data to identify trends, anomalies, yield issues, and process deviations
• Monitor manufacturing-line data systems for data quality, completeness, consistency, and usability
• Create recurring and ad hoc reports to support engineering investigations, operational monitoring, and management decision-making
• Develop, maintain, and optimize SQL queries, views, stored procedures, and reporting datasets to support manufacturing and test operations
• Support ETL-style data extraction and transformation workflows from manufacturing databases. Maintain and improve Python-based extraction and processing code used for recurring data pulls, normalization, validation, and analysis support

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• 2 years of experience in a data analyst, or manufacturing data support role
• Proficient in SQL, including joins, aggregations, filtering, subqueries, common table expressions, and performance-conscious query design
• Experience with data hygiene, validation, reconciliation, and quality checks in operational datasets
• Working proficiency in Python for maintaining and improving extraction, cleansing, and transformation scripts
• Experience supporting manufacturing, test, operations, or quality data environments
• Experience working with data generated by automated test systems, production systems, or factory equipment
• Familiarity with SPC, Cp/Cpk, yield analysis, or related manufacturing/process-control concepts
• Experience with Python libraries such as pandas for data manipulation and analysis
• Experience preparing data for dashboards or business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau

Benefits

• U.S. employees are offered medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules.
• Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees.
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco.
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees.
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, subject to availability and some business limitations.
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next.
• Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members.
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.
• For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.
• Remote work arrangement.

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