14 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with hardware engineering teams on platform bring-up, low-level drivers, and Network Interface Module integration.
- Design, implement, and maintain ROMMON and bootloader software for secure and reliable system initialization.
- Develop and optimize high-performance forwarding-plane software for secure routing environments.
- Implement and optimize Layer 2 networking protocols and features.
- Analyze performance bottlenecks across kernel, hardware-abstraction, control-plane, and hardware layers.
- Use AI-assisted coding tools, static analysis, test automation, and modern IDE workflows to improve development quality and efficiency.
Requirements
- Require 8–12 years of industry experience with end-to-end networking software development.
- Require experience with platforms, system software, kernel and user-space drivers, bootloaders, BIOS, and control-plane/data-plane performance tuning.
- Require strong C/C++ systems-programming skills in Linux environments.
- Require experience developing device drivers, working with RTOS/Linux kernels, and understanding hardware-software interfaces.
- Require knowledge of routing architectures and Layer 2 protocols including Ethernet, VLANs, and STP.
- Require experience with ROMMON, bootloaders, hardware bring-up, and board support packages.
- Require the ability to debug complex issues across hardware, firmware, and software layers.
- Require experience with LAN/WAN interfaces and Layer 2/Layer 3 technologies.
- Require experience with AI/ML techniques and development tools such as code assistants, static analysis tools, and test automation.
- Prefer knowledge of high-speed interfaces including PHY, MAC, and MACsec, plus DPDK.
- Prefer platform/system expertise in kernel bring-up, driver development, platform/network management software, and cloud networking.
- Prefer debugging experience with I2C, I2C trace analyzers, and PCIe.
- Prefer knowledge of x86 or ARM assembly, instruction sets, and ABIs.
- Prefer experience with GDB, Arium, BDI, or other hardware and software debuggers.
About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.