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Cisco Dataplane Software Engineering Technical Leader United States, Georgia, Atlanta 700932010
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The application window for this position is expected to close September 18, 2025; position may close sooner if a sufficient number of applications is received.
Your Impact
The Technical Leader role works alongside some of the brightest mind in the industry to deliver security network solutions on appliance-based platforms with data processing units (DPUs) and network processing units (NPUs). Typical responsibilities include:
- Development with third party SDKs, implementing build environment frameworks, designing test-harnesses for hardware bringup & debugging third party tools with external vendors
- Close interaction with customers to gather requirements, explain system design, share timelines, address difficulties, questions, issues, help in adoption.
- Owning the design and architecture of robust software systems, making design choices and dictating coding standards, tools, and platforms.
- Provide technical leadership by guiding and mentoring a team of Software Engineers, driving technical excellence in SDK development.
Minimum Qualifications for this Role:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
- 7+ years of experience with networking. e.g. processing packet streams, TCP reassembly, DPDK, or similar
- Platform/ASIC bring-up experience in Linux-based environments using programming languages to include P4
- Advanced experience developing software for or leveraging hardware acceleration platforms like DPUs or NPUs.
- Experience with performance analysis, tuning, and optimization for high-throughput data plane applications.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
- Contributions to open-source projects.
- Experience with AI/ML is a plus, especially for building innovative solutions to improve productivity, solve customer challenges, or drive research initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to design and develop self-built AI tools or projects will be considered a significant advantage.
- Represented the organization or team at industry conferences, standards bodies, or technical forums.
- Domain expertise in network security technologies (e.g., NGFW, Web Security, Zero Trust, SASE).
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