Senior Engineer I, 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 a Senior Engineer I to join our Smart Switch firmware team in Chennai. You will be a technical anchor for the team — designing, developing, and maintaining embedded Linux firmware for NETGEAR's smart switch product families spanning 20+ SKUs across multiple hardware platforms.
This role sits at the intersection of hardware and software: you will work with switch ASIC SDKs,



implement and optimize L2/L3 networking protocols, develop kernel modules, and ensure production-quality firmware for ARM64/MIPS-based networking devices. You will collaborate daily with the various engineering teams and have significant ownership over critical platform subsystems.
As the industry shifts toward agentic engineering — where engineers orchestrate AI coding agents to handle implementation while focusing their own expertise on architecture, system design, and validation — we expect this role to embrace AI-augmented workflows as a core part of daily development.
This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on solving deep technical problems in embedded networking systems and leverages AI tools to amplify their productivity.
What You Will Do
Platform & Architecture: Own and evolve the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) that bridges the switch ASIC SDK with application-layer software. Design and implemen

📌 Senior Engineer I, Smart Switch Software Development (Bengaluru)
🏢 NETGEAR
📍 Bengaluru