Meet the team
Join the Cisco IIoT team to work on product development for industrial switching and routing solutions that transform industrial operations. The team builds secure, scalable technologies across industrial networking, edge computing, and IoT security, helping customers in manufacturing, energy, transportation, and smart cities improve efficiency through real-time insights. Cisco offers software engineers a unique experience that blends the scale and resources of a global organization with a startup-like culture, strong collaboration, and broad growth opportunities.
Your Impact
- Design and development of IIoT hardware platforms, ensuring flawless integration between hardware and software layers.
- Build and development of control plane and data plane software for Cisco IIOT Switching, Routing products.
- Design and develop low-level software components, including BSP, device drivers and kernel modules.
- Analyze requirements and problem statements to come with right software designs and solutions. To be able to write details Design documents and Functional Specifications.
- To Code and Unit Test Software components and modules. It is required to have strong white-box testing and automating skills
- Triage, debug, and root cause simulation, software bring-up, and customer failures
- To be able to innovate and come up with new insights that can lead to filing patents and creating IP value for the company
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors (5-8 years) or Master’s degree(3-6 years) in Computer Science, EE/ECE or related fields.
- Proficient in writing quality code in C/C++
- Strong hardware and device driver development background, including experience with Linux hardware bring-up.
- Proven experience in hardware and device driver development, including Linux hardware bring-up, multi-threading, event handling, and state machine implementation.
- Strong understanding of OS (e.g. Linux, RTOS, Unix) and experience working with Linux kernel, device drivers, and BSPs.
- Prior experience developing, debugging, and validating embedded systems using protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, GPIO.
- Experience in developing software/firmware for networking equipment.
- Experience using Traffic generators/Analyzers such as IXIA/Sniffer is a plus.
- Hands on experience with Gen AI assistant technologies, natural language processing (NLP) or Gen AI technologies (OpenAI, Gemini, MCP, Agentic AI etc..)
Preferred Qualifications: (Optional)
Prior experience in kernel programming, open-source technologies and kernel debugging tools such as GDB and KGDB.
Experience in development and validation of peripheral interfaces (e.g. PCI, PCIe, I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, Ethernet) and ensure their reliable operations is a plus.
Cisco Networking certificates such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE are desirable.
Experience with AI/ML and Agentic AI framework.
Why Cisco?At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, EE/ECE or related field (experience ranges specified)
- Proficient in writing quality code in C/C++
- Hardware and device driver development background, including Linux hardware bring-up
- Experience with multi-threading, event handling, and state machine implementation
- Strong understanding of OS (Linux, RTOS, Unix) and experience working with Linux kernel, device drivers, and BSPs
- Experience developing, debugging, and validating embedded systems using protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe, GPIO
- Experience developing software/firmware for networking equipment
- Hands-on experience with Gen AI assistant technologies, NLP or Gen AI technologies (OpenAI, Gemini, MCP, Agentic AI etc.)
- Experience using traffic generators/analyzers such as IXIA or Sniffer
- Kernel programming, open-source technologies and kernel debugging tools such as GDB and KGDB
- Experience in development and validation of peripheral interfaces (PCI, PCIe, I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, Ethernet)
- Cisco networking certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE
- Experience with AI/ML and Agentic AI frameworks
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, mental health support via an EAP, and access to on-site or virtual health centers indicate robust healthcare offerings. Wellness programs, fitness resources, and specialized services further reinforce coverage depth.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, a global minimum for paid parental leave, and unique programs like company-wide recharge days and paid volunteer time expand time-away options. Additional offerings such as Critical Time Off and adoption assistance add flexibility for life events.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Restricted stock units and a discounted employee stock purchase plan are meaningful elements of total compensation. The prominence of equity can materially augment overall pay packages alongside salary and bonuses.
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What We Do
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.
