1 month ago
Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Evaluate and optimize performance on MR Access Point devices.
- Solve functional and performance regressions in Access Point firmware.
- Develop features aligned with 802.11 and networking standards while maintaining legacy compatibility.
- Design and implement data plane optimizations by profiling systems, identifying bottlenecks, and developing performance-oriented solutions.
- Create tests and processes to triage and resolve performance and functional issues.
- Lead small-to-medium features from technical design through completion and communicate design decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 8+ years of total software engineering experience, or a master’s degree with 6+ years of total software engineering experience.
- At least 6 years of professional software engineering experience in production environments using C or C++.
- Experience with Wi-Fi drivers and firmware, including collaboration with Wi-Fi vendors to triage and resolve technical issues.
- Experience with Linux and/or embedded systems environments and knowledge of TCP/IP and UDP.
- Experience with 802.11 wireless standards and DNS, DHCP, and VLAN protocols.
- Experience analyzing Wireshark packet captures for debugging and root cause analysis.
- Preferred: system and traffic profiling, performance-oriented data structures and algorithms, and performance testing with iperf, Ixia Traffic Generators, Ixia Chariot, or iGen.
- Preferred: hardware and software acceleration experience with DPDK, VPP, multithreading, or similar technologies.
- Preferred: Yocto build systems and embedded Linux development.
- Preferred: experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, or Codex.
Benefits
- The posting lists medical, dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
- Benefits include paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
- Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses, and employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- The application window is expected to close on December 24, 2026.
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.