Cisco Software Engineering Senior Technical Leader 

United States, California, San Jose 

392182168

The application window is expected to close on July 31, 2025.The job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Your ImpactIn this role, you will lead a team of engineers and technical leaders in the design and development of software features for control plane and data plane on Cisco’s Silicon One NPU. You will be responsible for creating software that will be used to build highly scalable, low power, low latency, dense systems for the ever-demanding AI/ML workloads, internet users and applications. You will use modern C++, Network processing language of Silicon One and Python to develop software on the NPU. As a senior technical leader, you will be part of requirement discussions with the customer and will work on scoping the feature post-closing the requirements. You will take complete ownership of delivering the software in a timely manner and with outstanding quality. You will lead a team of engineers and guide/unblock the team with any design/implementation related issues. You will be the gatekeeper of the code base in the domains you own. You will gain intimate knowledge of the Silicon One hardware architecture, software programming models and work with the architecture and hardware teams to define the next generation of ASIC products being developed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 8 years of experience in networking software development or Masters + 6 years of experience, or PhD + 5 years of experience.
• Experience using programming languages such as C, C++, and Python for programming and design.
• Experience with networking protocols (e.g., L2/L3, MPLS, BGP, OSPF).
• Experience with software-hardware integration and debugging.
• Experience in analytical reasoning and debugging, with practical experience in using tools such as GDB or PDB.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microcode programming skills in P4 or other similar network programming languages.
• Experience in debugging customer related issues.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with cloud, data center, or edge networking products.