Cisco Software Engineering Technical Leader 

United States, Texas, Austin 

864938965

The application window is expected to close on: 02/30/25

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

In 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.

•Bachelors in Computer Science or related degree + 8 years of related experience, or Masters in Computer Science or related degree + 6 years of related experience

•Experience using C++ and Python for programming and design.

•Experience in analytical reasoning and debugging, with practical experience in using tools such as GDB or PDB

•Experience with writing and testing software for high performing and scalable networking products.

•Experience with Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking protocols and technologies

•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