# Lead Firmware Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $186,900.00 to $267,700.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Cisco Meraki's Wireless team develops and maintains the world's leading cloud-managed WLAN Access Point ecosystem, serving millions of active devices across the globe.

As a Lead Firmware Engineer on the Wireless Performance team, you will drive the evaluation and optimization of performance on MR Access Point devices, directly impacting millions of customers worldwide.

Responsibilities:

- Solve functional and performance-related regressions in our Access Point firmware while actively developing features aligned with emerging 802.11 and networking standards.

- Design and implement next-level data plane optimizations by evaluating existing components, identifying performance bottlenecks, and collaborating across teams to deliver novel solutions.

- Develop comprehensive tests and processes to proactively triage and resolve performance and functional issues.

- Lead small-to-medium features from technical design through completion, advocating for customer-centric improvements.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 8+ years of total software engineering experience or Master's with 6+ years of total software engineering experience.

- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience in production environments using C or C++ programming.

- Prior experience with Wi-Fi drivers and firmware, including direct collaboration with Wi-Fi vendors.

- Experience working in Linux and/or embedded systems environments with knowledge of TCP/IP and UDP protocols.

- Applied experience with 802.11 wireless standards and core network protocols.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Deep understanding of system performance optimizations.

- Hands-on experience with performance testing tools.

- Experience with hardware and software acceleration paradigms.

- Proficiency with Yocto build systems and embedded Linux development.

- AI-first development mindset with demonstrated experience using modern AI-assisted development tools.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental and vision insurance.

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.

- Paid parental leave.

- Short and long-term disability coverage.

- Basic life insurance.

- Paid time away.

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

Salary Range: $186,900.00 to $267,700.00

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- Wi-Fi drivers
- firmware
- Linux
- TCP/IP
- UDP
- 802.11 wireless standards

### Nice to have
- performance testing tools
- hardware and software acceleration paradigms
- Yocto build systems
- embedded Linux development
- AI-assisted development tools

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