2 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop BIOS, BSP, and diagnostics for Cisco Core and Edge routing products.
- Design, develop, and test device drivers for FPGA and high-speed networking peripherals.
- Develop and execute software test plans.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to debug prototypes and validate software.
- Lead or contribute to board bring-up, embedded-system validation, and debugging.
- Provide expert technical consultation internally and externally and help shape technology direction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 14+ years of experience, or a master's degree with 12+ years of experience.
- Current experience programming embedded systems with C, C++, and Python.
- Experience with hardware and device-driver development, Linux hardware bring-up, multithreading, event handling, and state-machine implementation.
- Experience with Sonic, ONIE, BMC, IPMI, and/or Redfish.
- Experience developing, debugging, and validating embedded systems using I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, and GPIO.
- Preferred experience with GDB and KGDB kernel debugging tools.
- Preferred experience leading board bring-up, validation, and debugging of embedded systems.
- Preferred experience with large-scale, high-bandwidth systems, kernel-to-application troubleshooting, system design, specifications, and requirements reviews.
- Preferred knowledge of AI/ML, Layer 2/3 network protocols, network processors, optical networking, secure boot, open-source tools, CMIS, and SFF standards including SFP and QSFP.
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.