Description
As a Software Engineer on the Silicon One Customer Engineering team, you will work closely with Cisco's Silicon One customers to help with Silicon One product adoption, software development, documentation, technical support, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
You will gather information from customers on their requirements, pain points, and help them implement software solutions to improve software quality and customer experience.
You will gain intimate knowledge of the Silicon One hardware architecture and software programming models, working closely with the architecture, hardware, and software teams.
You will develop innovative applications, customizations of Silicon One software to better suit the customer's needs.
You will work with Silicon One Software teams to design and develop software features for both the control plane and data plane on Cisco's Silicon One NPU.
You will use modern C++, the Silicon One network processing language, and Python to develop software for the NPU.
As a lead engineer, you will participate in customer discussions to define requirements, scope features, and drive the development process from start to finish.
You will take full ownership of delivering high-quality software on schedule, while leading a team of engineers and providing guidance on design, implementation, and reviews.
Additionally, you will gain deep expertise in the Silicon One hardware architecture and programming models, collaborating with architecture and hardware teams to shape the next generation of ASIC products.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor of Science EE/CS combined with 8+ years of related experience or Master of Science EE/CS combined with 6+ years of related experience.
- Prior expertise in software development and integration while using one or more of the following programming languages: C++, Python.
- Prior expertise with networking protocols and technologies (e.g., L2/L3, MPLS, BGP, OSPF).
- Prior expertise in analytical reasoning and debugging, with experience using tools such as GDB, PDB, etc.
- Prior working experience with algorithms and data structures.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud, data center, or edge networking products.
- Experience with SAI, SONiC or other Network OS.
- Experience with writing, testing, and supporting software for high-performing and scalable networking products.