Software Development Engineer – IIoT Networking

Meet the Team
Join the Cisco IIOT team in product development for Industrial IOT switching and routing products that transforms industrial operations. Cisco's IIOT team provides an outstanding, unique experience for software engineers by combining the resources offered by a sizable multi-geography organization and a large campus (with an on-site gym, healthcare, café, social interest groups, and philanthropy) with the startup culture and breadth of growth opportunities that working in a smaller teams can provide.

Your Impact

• Design and development of IIoT hardware platforms, ensuring seamless integration between hardware and software layers.

• Design and development of control plane and data plane software for Cisco IIOT Switching, Routing products.

• Design and develop low-level software components, including BSP, device drivers and kernel modules.
• Analyse requirements and problem statements to come with right software designs and solutions. To be able to write details Design documents and Functional Specifications.
• To Code and Unit Test Software components and modules. It is required to have strong open box testing and automating skills
• Triage, debug, and root cause simulation, software bring-up, and customer failures
• To be able to innovate and come up with new ideas that can lead to filing patents and creating IP value for the company

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors (4-8 years) or Master's degree(3-6 years) in Computer Science, EE/ECE or related fields.

• Proficient in writing quality code in C/C++

• Strong understanding of OS (e.g. Linux, RTOS, Unix) and experience working with Linux kernel, device drivers, and BSPs.
• Prior work experience with control plane software or data plane software, data structures, Linux/RTOS/Networking OS internals
• Experience in developing software/firmware for networking equipment.
• Experience using Traffic generators/Analyzers such as IXIA/Sniffer is a plus.
• Experience with debugging and verification methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Scripting experience (Python, Perl, TCL, shell programming)

• You have hands-on development experience on L2, L3 protocols.

• Experience in Networking domain with strong L2/L3 or Security protocols experience OR Experience in development and validation of peripheral interfaces (e.g. PCI, PCIe, I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, Ethernet) and ensure their reliable operations is a plus.
• Cisco Networking certificates such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE are desirable.
• Excellent communication and strategic planning skills, while being self-motivated with a focus on execution.

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