# Software Engineer - C Programming | Linux | Hardware Protocol - BLR , 8+ yrs

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

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## Description

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 flexible and agile network infrastructure. These capabilities support multi-layered responses to the diverse workload demands of AI and ML.

**Your Impact**

- Design, develop, and test 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 8+ years experience, or Master’s degree with 7+ 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 collaborative system design, specification writing, and requirements review.

- Commitment to quality, mentoring, and continuous learning in networking, optics, and embedded systems.

- Experience with AI/ML and Agentic AI framework.

- Knowledge of Layer 2/3 network protocols.

- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.

- Experience with network processors and optical networking.

- Familiarity with secure-boot, open-source tools, CMIS, and SFF standards (SFP, QSFP).

- Strong communication skills and knowledge of software quality processes.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- Python
- Linux
- hardware development
- device driver development
- embedded systems
- I2C
- SPI
- UART
- PCIe
- GPIO

### Nice to have
- kernel debugging tools
- GDB
- KGDB
- large-scale software development
- troubleshooting
- debugging
- AI/ML
- Agentic AI framework
- Layer 2/3 network protocols
- network processors
- optical networking
- secure-boot
- open-source tools
- CMIS
- SFF standards

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