# Software Engineer - Silicon One Customer Engineering

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

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## Description

Cisco Silicon One is the center of Cisco’s ASIC design and is driving the development of next-generation network devices for the AI/ML era.

As part of Silicon One Customer Engineering team, you will closely work with Cisco’s Silicon Customers to help with Silicon One product adoption, software development, documentation, technical support, trouble shooting, and maintenance.

You will gather information from customers on their requirements, pain points and help them implement in software 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 development of software features for both the control plane and data plane on Cisco's Silicon One NPU.

You'll play a critical role in creating software that powers highly scalable, low-power, low-latency, and dense systems, addressing the ever-growing demands of AI/ML workloads, internet users, and modern applications.

You will use modern C++, the Silicon One network processing language, and Python to develop software for the NPU.

As the lead engineer, you'll participate in customer discussions to define requirements, scope features, and drive the development process from start to finish.

You'll 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'll 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.

**Benefits:** No benefits mentioned in the job posting.

## Skills

### Required
- C++
- Python
- networking protocols
- analytical reasoning
- algorithms
- data structures

### Nice to have
- cloud
- data center
- edge networking
- SAI
- SONiC

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