5 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop BIOS, BSPs, 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 and validate embedded systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to debug prototypes and lead board bring-up and validation.
- Provide complex technical consultation and act as an internal and external subject-matter expert.
- Drive software, hardware, and technology solutions and shape technical and industry 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 in 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, embedded-system board bring-up, validation, debugging, and kernel-to-application troubleshooting.
- Preferred experience with large-scale, high-bandwidth systems, collaborative system design, specifications, requirements reviews, AI/ML, networking protocols, network processors, optical networking, secure boot, 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.