Cisco Principal Engineer 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

603510806

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Architect flex-grid long-haul line systems, considering transmission characteristics of fiber and line system elements, including signal power/OSNR evolution and fiber nonlinearities.
• Collaborate on the architecture, design, and validation of distributed, link-level optical line system control systems in close cooperation with software development and test teams.
• Work in a co-development model with key Hyperscaler to design future systems.
• Work closely with the test team to validate and simplify solutions.
• Create comprehensive documentation to ensure use cases are clear.
• Drive the overall strategy and vision for your team's contributions to the AI infrastructure space.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on large-scale systems.
• Hands-on experience with DWDM transmission systems, including coherent transponders, EDFAs, Raman amplifiers, and ROADMs is desirable
• Understanding of HW architecture and SW architecture for optical line systems
• Strong programming skills in languages such as C, Java, Python, C++, or similar.
• Experience of working with cross functional teams viz PLM, HW team, Algorithm team, FPGA vendor, optical component vendor to drive architecture for new DWDM based system.
• Hands on experience of design and implementation of optical applications viz span loss, automatic power control, raman amplifier tuning, link tuner

• Experience of implementing northbound interface towards NMS / controller based on Netconf, Yang, GNOI, gNMI, telemetry
• Proven experience in leading technical projects and teams.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
• Experience with cloud technologies, microservices architecture, and agile methodologies is a plus.
• Experience with test-driven development is desirable.