# Software Engineer - Industrial Switching and Routing Solutions

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the Cisco IIoT team to work on product development for industrial switching and routing solutions that transform industrial operations.

**Your Impact**

- Design and develop IIoT hardware platforms, ensuring seamless integration between hardware and software layers.

- Design and develop control plane and data plane software for Cisco IIOT Wireless products.

- Design and develop low-level software components, including BSP, radio device drivers, and kernel modules.

- Analyze requirements and problem statements to come up with the right software designs and solutions.

- Write detailed design documents and functional specifications.

- Code and unit test software components and modules, with strong white-box testing and automation skills.

- Troubleshoot, debug, and root cause simulation, software bring-up, and customer failures.

- Collaborate with local and remote teams to review product requirements documents, develop specifications, and test plans.

- Innovate and come up with new ideas that can lead to filing patents and crafting IP value for the company.

**Minimum Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, EE/ECE, or related fields.

- Prior work experience with control plane software or data plane software, data structures, wireless experience (802.11ac/ax/be), Linux/RTOS/Networking OS internals.

- Strong understanding of OS (e.g., Linux, RTOS, Unix) and experience working with Linux kernel, device drivers, and BSPs.

- Deep, hands-on expertise in 802.11 radio firmware and system architecture.

- Debug and resolve challenging cross-layer issues (RF, firmware, driver, system).

- Strong understanding and development experience in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite communication systems and architectures.

- Knowledge of Starlink services, user terminals, gateways, and satellite internet connectivity.

- Experience with LTE, 5G NR, cellular gateways, SIM-based connectivity, and wireless communication systems.

- Understanding of satellite-based wireless backhaul architectures.

- Experience in developing software/firmware for networking products.

- Excellent knowledge of software architecture and system design.

- Experience using traffic generators/analyzers such as IXIA/Wireshark.

- Proficient in writing quality code in C/C++.

- Technical leadership experience in leading high-performance teams.

- Hands-on experience with Gen AI assistant technologies, natural language processing (NLP), or Gen AI technologies.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Significant experience with 802.11 driver development and troubleshooting or LEO, Satellite internet, LTE, Cellular gateway communication, and architecture.

- Having hands-on development experience with L2, L3, Wireless protocols is a plus.

- Cisco Networking certificates such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE are desirable.

- Experience with AI/ML and Agentic AI framework.

## Skills

### Required
- control plane software
- data plane software
- wireless experience (802.11ac/ax/be)
- Linux/RTOS/Networking OS internals
- OS (Linux, RTOS, Unix)
- Linux kernel
- device drivers
- BSPs
- 802.11 radio firmware
- system architecture
- LEO satellite communication systems
- Starlink services
- LTE
- 5G NR
- cellular gateways
- SIM-based connectivity
- wireless communication systems
- satellite-based wireless backhaul
- software/firmware for networking products
- software architecture
- system design
- C/C++
- Gen AI assistant technologies
- natural language processing (NLP)
- Gen AI technologies

### Nice to have
- 802.11 driver development
- troubleshooting
- LEO
- Satellite internet
- Cellular gateway communication
- architecture
- L2
- L3
- Wireless protocols
- Cisco Networking certificates
- AI/ML
- Agentic AI framework

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