Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Develop software consistent with Cisco 'Design Thinking Principles' with a focus on simplification and customer experience at its core, using secure coding practices following software development best practices. Partners with cross-functional teams to create the right solution for our customers. Creates technical design documentation for the team as well as contributing to user documentation for end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes. You will join our next-generation networking and AI infrastructure team, contributing to the design and development of scalable software systems for high-speed networking platforms, coherent optical transceivers, PHY devices, and next-generation NPU-based systems. You will work at the intersection of optics and its standards, silicon photonics, ASIC/NPU datapath, Linux embedded software and distributed network operating systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 6+ years, Master’s degree and 4+ years, or PhD and 1+ years of experience with a degree in CS, EE, or related field
- Experience in C/C++/Python, Data Structures and Algorithms
- Experience with embedded systems development and Linux OS programming experience
- Experience with Platform Infrastructure or Optics software Development
Nice To Haves
- Experience of coherent optics (ZR/ZR+), PHY / SerDes, FEC, ASIC / NPU, and DSP-based systems
- Familiarity with CMIS and / or SFF standards
- Experience with IOS-XR, SONiC, FBOSS, or similar NOS platforms
- Experience with AI networking infrastructure
- Knowledge of optical line systems and coherent transport technologies
Responsibilities
- Implement CMIS / SFF compliant management frameworks for pluggable optics
- Develop datapath and control-plane integration software for NPUs and ASICs, and contribute to software for co-packaged optics, silicon photonics, coherent DSP-based optics, and 800G / 1.6T systems
- Develop Linux-based embedded software and integrate optics / PHY functionality with distributed network operating systems
- Build telemetry, diagnostics, and fault-management infrastructure, develop automation and validation infrastructure in Python
- Lead medium-scope features from technical design through completion
- Contribute to a defined software engineering roadmap, identify and recommend improvements to the software development lifecycle and agile engineering best practices
- Write functional clean code and unit tests with no guidance. Maintain and enhance solutions by fixing complicated errors, raising risks, and escalating issues where necessary
- Shares knowledge across teams, both informally and formally (e.g., ad-hoc basis, internal presentations, blogs, newsletters)
- Coordinates across teams to estimate times and complete projects according to specification and user requirements
- Tracks milestones, progress and provides ongoing updates and remediation plans to cross-functional partners
- Mentors and assists other team members through code reviews, documentation and technical guidance
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- paid time away
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees (non-exempt)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
