1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaEntry Level / Mid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and develop board support packages and diagnostics for Cisco core and edge routing products.
- Design, develop, and test kernel and user-space device drivers for FPGA and networking peripherals.
- Develop and execute software test plans.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to debug prototypes and validate software.
- Troubleshoot software defects from kernel modules through applications and contribute to system design, specifications, and requirements reviews.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 2+ years of experience, or a master’s degree with 1+ years of experience.
- Proficiency in C, C++, and Python.
- Strong hardware and device-driver development experience, including Linux hardware bring-up, multithreading, event handling, and state-machine implementation.
- Experience developing, debugging, and validating embedded systems and device drivers for I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, and/or GPIO.
- Preferred qualifications include GDB and KGDB experience, large-scale high-bandwidth systems development, network processors, optical networking, Layer 2/3 network protocols, secure boot, open-source tools, CMIS, SFF, SFP, and QSFP standards.
- Experience with AI/ML, software quality processes, collaborative system design, mentoring, troubleshooting, and debugging is preferred.
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.