Cisco Senior Software Engineer Platform Linux Device drivers 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

820212580

You have an outstanding opportunity to be part of the product development from ground up (Platforms and Software). You will work with a dynamic testing team which works hand-in-hand with development team as a cohesive unit to deliver world class quality products. You will have ownership of multiple components and play an important role in understanding new feature requirements, developing test design based on functional specifications, automating them and engaging with customers. You will be interacting with peer engineers / technical leaders within the BU on design/functional and architectural aspects of features and components across Cisco products. As a software QA engineer in this group, you will be responsible for testing, automating & enabling platform/software solutions for customers. You will also have an exciting time working on the Storage Area Network along with Ethernet for Cisco's product line.

Data Center Networking Group develops the Nexus 9000 line of data center and cloud switches that feature application awareness to make the network infrastructure flexible and agile for dynamic response to application needs and virtual machine workload mobility. Data Center also developed a 400G, 800G Ethernet transceiver crafted to drastically lower the optics price to out compete the competitor offerings.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with Customers, Product Marketing, Hardware and Software groups and delivering the products.

• B.E/B.Tech/ME/Mtech/MS from reputed university and at least 8-11 years of software development experience in embedded systems or system software space
• Hands on Engineer/leader who can work along with senior folks giving to Architecture, design and development of platform development cycle
• In depth understanding of hardware boards, layout
• Development experience in one or more areas of BIOS/GRUB/uboot, linux device drivers/ Linux KLM, networking stack, memory model
• Development experience on PCH and peripherals PCI, I2C, SPI, Higig+ bus, FPGA and CPLD handling, handling os special devices and peripherals – I2C-GPIO expanders.
• Exposure to standards – XAUI, SGMI, Serdes, SGMII, MSA
• Development experience in Chassis management
• Knowledge of asic forwarding, Linux drivers and 3rdparty ASICs/network processors highly desired.
• Excellent debugging skills and rich experience using various hardware, memory debugging tools
• Develop innovative solutions to revolutionize for the next generation data center.
• Ability to self-motivate with a strong desire to learn, and ability to be flexible
• Flexibility in a fast paced, ever-changing, deadline-driven environment
• Develop SDK for next generation feature rich network ASIC

• Working experience in merchant silicon
• Knowledge of asic forwarding, Linux drivers and 3rdparty ASICs/network processors highly desired.
• Experience working on Scalable, Distributed Architectures a plus
• Experience with Network Switches desirable
• Strong written & verbal communication skills,
• Ability to multi-task and solve sophisticated problems
• Ability to drive a team towards results
• Consistent track record of learning new technologies and features on own initiative
• A demonstrable passion for technology and software development

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).