Hardware Platform Routing jobs at Cisco in India, Bengaluru

You will be involved with a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support. As a technical lead, you will be giving to the below activities:

• Be responsible for the design, development, and deployment of software solutions leveraging SONiC to work with hardware infrastructure and platform-level components.
• Develop and maintain platform adaptation layers for detailed integration between SONiC and underlying hardware (e.g., ASICs, BMC, optics modules, and other platform elements).
• Collaborate with hardware teams to enable optimal hardware-software interactions and expose hardware capabilities—including optical diagnostics and SerDes tunables—through SONiC interfaces.
• Write, review, and optimize code for critical system modules, drivers, and APIs supporting high-performance data planes and control planes.
• Implement support for optical module management (e.g., DOM, power budgeting, module fault handling) and SerDes tuning/configuration via SAI or platform-specific SDKs.
• Develop and maintain AN/LT (Auto-Negotiation and Link Training) logic integration across supported ASIC platforms for varied link bring-up.

• Define the technical architecture to integrate SONiC with platform infrastructure, ensuring scalability and high availability.
• Design robust interfaces between SONiC and platform-specific management/control modules (e.g., telemetry, diagnostics, optics monitoring, and security components).
• Lead efforts to optimize resource utilization, power efficiency, and operational stability of the network platform.
• Architect solutions to support multiple optical form factors (QSFP-DD, OSFP, SFP-DD), breakout modes, and varying signaling rates (25G, 50G PAM4, 100G/lane) within SONiC's platform layer.

• Provide technical direction to the development team, mentoring junior and mid-level engineers on software engineering standard methodologies and advanced networking concepts.
• Guide the team in debugging sophisticated link bring-up issues involving optics/SerDes/ANLT interactions across hardware and firmware layers.
• Coordinate multi-functional activities between software, hardware, QA, and systems integration teams.
• Drive code reviews, technical discussions, and issue resolution to ensure timely and quality work you're doing.

• Act as a key liaison with open-source SONiC communities, giving to upstream development and demonstrating community innovations.
• Collaborate with product management and customers to understand use cases, capture requirements, and align work with business objectives—including emerging optics-related features such as CMIS support or link tuning APIs.
• Own the evaluation and adoption of new tools, technologies, and methodologies to accelerate development and testing cycles, particularly in optics and link performance diagnostics.

• Bachelors of Science
• 12+ years of experience in software development within the networking or telecommunications industry
• Expertise in C, C++, Python, Bash scripting
• Software development experience with Linux-based platforms or other network operating systems such as SONiC
• Experience with platform infrastructure such as ASIC drivers, BMC, and network OS development
• Familiarity with optical transceivers (QSFP-DD, OSFP, SFP+, etc.), SerDes configuration, and AN/LT debugging across vendor SDKs
• Experience working with virtualization, containerization, and orchestration frameworks such as Docker, Kubernetes, or similar
• Experience leading teams or technical projects in a sophisticated development environment

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks
• Experience with platform-level security requirements and compliance frameworks
• Understanding of telemetry systems and software-defined networking (SDN)
• Exposure to SONiC or experience working with the SONiC open-source community
• Knowledge of hardware abstraction layers and SDKs from major networking silicon providers (Broadcom, Marvell, Mellanox/NVIDIA, etc.)
• Experience with optical technologies including:
• CMIS management interface for modern optical modules
• SerDes tuning and signal integrity validation
• Auto-negotiation and link training on PAM4-based interfaces
• Breakout configurations and retimer behavior
• Troubleshooting link flaps and optical faults across high-speed interface

You will have the opportunity to work with leading-edge networking technologies in the areas of SDWAN and edge routing platforms and be part of the team responsible for defining, developing, and innovating new and evolving features and architectures in SDWAN and routing. You will work in collaboration with team who will define the next generation ASIC for routing products which would require new architecture for packet forwarding. You will participate in many creative projects, with the authority and scope to apply your expertise in a dynamic engineering environment. Our team values collaboration, learning, paramount focus on quality and customer impact. You will get a chance to work with various teams across varied technologies and will learn and be part of an ever growing, evolving technology. You will be responsible for crafting, coding and testing forwarding components with focus on end-to-end visibility and knowledge. You will have the opportunity to influence the network behavior by collaborating with other Engineers, Technical Leaders and Distinguished engineers across multiple cross-functional teams in Cisco.

• 3-4 years of Industry experience. Hands on experience on End-to-End Software development in a networking company in areas of Platforms, Hardware, bring up, system software, drivers (kernel and user space), bootloaders, BIOS and performance engineering/tuning
• Strong C programming in Linux and device drivers with skills and familiarity with large software development projects in an UNIX or IOS environment including experience with source code control systems, i.e. ability to search, navigate and handle extremely large code base.
• Experience with LAN/WAN communication interfaces, Ethernet layer 2, layer 3 technologies.
• Experience with hardware and software debuggers, GDB, Arium, BDI.
• Experience with scripting and automation and to be able to design, create and run scripts for longevity tests for platform, e.g Shell, Python, Perl, TCL, Expect.

• Develop, enhance, verify and sustain embedded system software for complex internetworking products as a key member of a cross-functional team.
• Perform design trade-off analysis, write software specifications, code, integrate and test new software and hardware, complete product release, and provide field support.
• Interface with Business Development, External Partners, Hardware Engineering, QA Test and Release Operations throughout the development cycle.
• Act as Key Decision maker on Technical and Engineering Design issues.

• Knowledge or demonstrated experience with high-speed interfaces, PHY, MAC, MACSEC experience will be a plus.
• Some of the key areas of expertise in addition to Networking domain is platform/System Areas such as kernel bring up, kernel driver development, platform bring up/ management software and Cloud Networking Technologies.
• Experience in debugging platform issue with i2c, i2c trace analyzers, PCIe.
• Knowledge of X86, ARM assembly code.
• Motivated self-starter with good communication and organizational skills, with demonstrated ability to develop and deliver superior products in a cross-functional team environment under aggressive schedules.
• Knowledge and experience of micro code and forwarding, datapath plus.
• Knowledge and experience of DPDK is plus.

As a Solutions Engineer, you will collaborate closely with the Cisco Sales team to drive our go-to-market efforts and support technical sales activities. Leveraging your deep expertise in AI and the SP/Neocloud space, you will showcase the competitive advantages of Cisco's portfolio to prospective customers and partners, differentiating us from industry competitors.

• Understand customer and partner needs to effectively present Cisco's Secure AI solutions.
• Lead product demonstrations, address technical queries, contribute to proposals, analyse client requirements, and develop tailored technical solutions in a presales environment.
• Drive strategic sales initiatives, including customer outreach and channel training, to expand business in targeted regions.
• Maintain strong interpersonal, presentation, and troubleshooting skills, inspiring confidence and passion in your audience.

• 8+ years of technical presales experience (preferably selling GPU-backed Compute, Storage, and/or Secure DC Networking solutions). Must include track record of selling into the SP or Neocloud space.
• Practical knowledge of AI/ML technologies and their applications, including understanding language models (LLMs), and experience with training and fine-tuning LLMs using frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face Transformers.
• Good understanding of programming/scripting: (e.g., Python, Go) for customizing solutions, creating scripts, or automating tasks.
• Experience with AI relevant infrastructure, including Networking (InfiniBand and RoCE), Storage (FC, IP and scale out) and AI accelerators (GPUs etc).
• Excellent presentation skills – ability to value-sell and deliver engaging workshops to both technical and non-technical audiences on AI and/or infrastructure topics.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience. Advanced degree in Data Science is a plus.
• Good understanding of the Neocloud market dynamics, key players, and emerging trends within the neo cloud provider ecosystem, e.g their cost structures and differentiation from hyperscalers.
• Understanding CI/CD pipelines, automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Ability to design and optimize scalable and secure cloud solutions, including knowledge of virtual machines, serverless computing, and various cloud services.

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• B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science, ECE, or a related field
• 5–9 years of software development experience
• Strong proficiency in C programming in multi-threaded, embedded environments
• In-depth understanding of routing protocols such as OSPF , ISIS , and BGP
• Solid grasp of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, multicast, switching, forwarding)
• Experience working with or developing for NX-OS or similar network operating systems
• Strong understanding of OS internals , IPC , memory management , and HA systems
• Familiarity with YANG , SNMP , or model-driven telemetry
• Experience in scripting with Python
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Exposure to data center protocols such as Routing, VXLAN , EVPN , or segment routing
• Exposure to open-source tools, network automation, or configuration frameworks
• Prior experience building infrastructure at scale

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