Meet the Team
The Common Hardware Group (CHG) at Cisco is seeking skilled software engineers to join our Diagnostic/BSP team, responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of our world-class hardware. Our team develops software for Cisco’s network switches and routers, which feature advanced application awareness to build a adaptable and agile network infrastructure. These capabilities support multi-layered responses to the diverse workload demands of AI and ML. This is a unique opportunity to grow your technical skill set and gain visibility and recognition across cross-functional teams within Cisco. We value motivated individuals who enjoy solving complex challenges and thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment.
Your Impact
Design, and develop, BSP, and Diagnostics for Cisco Core and Edge routing products.
Design, develop, and test kernel and user space device drivers for FPGA and networking peripherals.
Develop and execute software test plans.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to debug prototypes and validate software.
Minimum Qualifications




Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 12+ years experience, or Master’s degree with 10+ years experience.
Proficient in C, C++, and Python programming.
Strong hardware and device driver development background, including experience with Linux hardware bring-up.
Demonstrated experience in hardware and device driver development, including Linux hardware bring-up, multi-threading, event handling, and state machine implementation.
Skilled in developing, debugging, and validating embedded systems and device drivers for protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, and/or GPIO.
Preferred Qualifications
Proficient in kernel debugging tools such as GDB and KGDB.
Experience developing software from concept through delivery for large-scale, high-speed interface and bandwidth.
Ability to troubleshoot software defects from kernel modules to applications.
Experience with coll

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