Engineer III, Smart Switch Software Development
Department: Enterprise Engineering — Smart Switch Software Development
Employment Type: Full-time
About NETGEAR
NETGEAR has been pioneering advanced networking technology since 1996, delivering innovative products that connect people to the internet, power businesses, and enable digital experiences. Our Smart Switch product line serves small-to-medium businesses and enterprises worldwide, offering advanced L2/L3 managed switching with cloud-based management through NETGEAR Insight. We are building a new engineering center in Chennai to drive the next generation of our smart switch firmware platform.
About the Role
We are looking for an Engineer III to join our Smart Switch firmware team in Chennai. You will develop and maintain embedded Linux firmware for NETGEAR's smart switch product families — working across user-space applications, cloud integration agents, configuration management, and web-based management interfaces.
This role focuses on the application and integration layers of the firmware stack: system daemons, CLI,



cloud agent, web UI backend, and the configuration subsystem that ties everything together. You will work on production firmware that ships to customers worldwide and collaborate daily with the various engineering teams.
We value engineers who actively use AI coding agents in their daily work — not just as autocomplete, but as cooperative tools for code generation, debugging, and accelerating feature delivery. Familiarity with agentic engineering practices is a strong plus.
This is an excellent role for a mid-career embedded or systems engineer who wants to deepen their expertise in networking firmware while taking ownership of meaningful features end-to-end.
What You Will Do
Application Development: Develop and maintain user-space daemons and services (process management, event handling, polling, monitoring, file synchronization) that form the runtime environment of the switch firmware.
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📌 Engineer III, Smart Switch Software Development (Bengaluru)
🏢 NETGEAR
📍 Bengaluru