BENGALURU · FULLTIME
Embedded Software Engineer

Cisco Systems
Bengaluru · onsite · Posted 3d ago
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Your Impact
Minimum Qualifications
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Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
Meet the Team.
The Common Hardware Group (CHG) at Cisco is seeking skilled software engineers to join our Diagnostic/BSP team, responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of our world-class hardware. Our team develops software for Cisco's network switches and routers, which feature advanced application awareness to build a flexible and agile network infrastructure. These capabilities support multi-layered responses to the diverse workload demands of AI and ML. This is a unique opportunity to grow your technical skill set and gain visibility and recognition across cross-functional teams within Cisco. We value motivated individuals who enjoy solving complex challenges and thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment.
Your Impact
- Design, and develop, BSP, 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.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 4+ years experience, or Master's degree with 2+ years experience.
- Proficient in C, C++, and Python programming.
- Strong hardware and device driver development background, including experience with Linux hardware bring-up.
- Demonstrated experience in hardware and device driver development, including Linux hardware bring-up, multi-threading, event handling, and state machine implementation.
- Skilled in developing, debugging, and validating embedded systems and device drivers for protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, and/or GPIO.
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficient in kernel debugging tools such as GDB and KGDB.
- Experience developing software from concept through delivery for large-scale, high-bandwidth systems.
- Ability to troubleshoot software defects from kernel modules to applications.
- Experience with collaborative system design, specification writing, and requirements review.
- Commitment to quality, mentoring, and continuous learning in networking, optics, and embedded systems.
- Experience with AI/ML.
- Knowledge of Layer 2/3 network protocols.
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
- Experience with network processors and optical networking.
- Familiarity with secure-boot, open-source tools, CMIS, and SFF standards (SFP, QSFP).
- Strong communication skills and knowledge of software quality processes.
Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.
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