20 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with hardware and ASIC teams on platform bring-up, low-level drivers, and Network Interface Module integration.
- Design, implement, and maintain ROMMON and bootloader software for secure and reliable system initialization.
- Develop and optimize high-performance forwarding-plane software for SD-WAN and edge routing platforms.
- Analyze performance bottlenecks across the kernel, hardware-abstraction layers, and control plane.
- Use modern development workflows and AI-assisted coding tools to improve software development efficiency and quality.
Requirements
- 4-8 years of industry experience in end-to-end networking software development, including platform software, system software, kernel/user-space drivers, bootloaders, and BIOS.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ systems programming in Linux environments.
- Experience developing device drivers and working with RTOS/Linux kernels.
- Understanding of routing architectures and Layer 2/Layer 3 networking protocols, including Ethernet, VLANs, and STP.
- Experience with bootloaders such as ROMMON, hardware bring-up, and board support packages.
- Preferred: knowledge of PHY, MAC, MACSEC, DPDK, I2C, PCIe, x86 or ARM assembly, instruction sets, ABIs, AI/ML development techniques, static analysis tools, and test automation platforms.
- Preferred: experience using GDB, Arium, BDI, or similar hardware/software debugging tools and debugging issues across hardware, firmware, and software layers.
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.