2 days ago
Base Salary
$155k - $223k/yr
Responsibilities
- Execute projects from prototype hardware bring-up through shipping product.
- Partner with Hardware Engineering to validate component selection and support new product architecture.
- Integrate vendor board support packages and software development kits with firmware and build systems.
- Develop, port, and debug Linux device drivers.
- Improve firmware design, development, and deployment practices.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional programming experience in C or C++.
- Experience with embedded systems, cross-platform development, and build tools such as the GNU toolchain, OpenWRT, buildroot, or Yocto.
- Experience with bootloaders such as U-Boot, coreboot, or UEFI, plus kernel configuration and device trees.
- Experience with I2C, SPI, and MDIO bus protocols.
- Preferred: device-driver development, upstreaming Linux patches, interpreting electrical schematics and technical data sheets, multithreaded or parallel programming, and experience with image sensors, GPUs, ISPs, DSPs, or H.264 video encoding.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with an expectation of three days per week in the San Francisco office.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
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.