Meet the Team
Join Cisco's Webex Media engineering site in Stockholm, where we craft the meeting experience that connects people and businesses around the world. We are a highly motivated, startup‑like team within a global organization, combining the impact and resources of Cisco with the agility and camaraderie of a smaller group. Our work powers the shift to a hybrid workforce and aims to make people feel truly connected. You’ll find a friendly, supportive environment that celebrates creativity, growth, and a shared passion for building world‑class real‑time audio algorithm experiences.
Your Impact
· Design, implement, and optimize VoIP audio algorithms—including adaptive jitter buffers, packet loss concealment, and codec pipelines—based on product requirements.
· Perform peer code reviews and automate development workflows and quality gates.
· Participate in agile ceremonies including daily stand‑ups, planning, releases, and retrospectives.
· Collaborate across teams to broaden technical and soft skills through training and mentoring.
Minimum Qualifications:
· 7+ years of professional software development experience and a MSc (or equivalent) in Software Engineering or a related field.
· Hands-on experience developing VoIP or real‑time audio algorithms (e.g., adaptive jitter buffer, packet loss concealment, codec integration) in production systems.
· Proficiency in C/C++ with strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
· Experience with media streaming and relevant protocols for real‑time applications.
· Professional verbal and written communication skills in English.
· Uses AI responsibly to accelerate development.
· Critically reviews AI-generated code before using it.
Preferred Qualifications:
· Experience applying AI/ML to audio algorithm development or optimization in production voice systems.
· Experience evaluating and tuning audio algorithms using objective metrics (e.g., POLQA, PESQ) and subjective listening tests.
· Experience with close‑to‑real‑time systems and performance‑sensitive code paths.
· Comfort with incremental development, testing, and A/B testing in production.
· Collaborative, friendly, and self‑directed; eager to learn and share knowledge.
· Steers AI effectively via context and prompt design.
Collab Hiring
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
- 7+ years of professional software development experience and an MSc (or equivalent) in Software Engineering or related field.
- Hands-on experience developing VoIP or real-time audio algorithms (adaptive jitter buffer, packet loss concealment, codec integration) in production systems.
- Proficiency in C/C++ with strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns.
- Experience with media streaming and relevant protocols for real-time applications.
- Professional verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Uses AI responsibly to accelerate development and critically reviews AI-generated code before using it.
- Experience applying AI/ML to audio algorithm development or optimization in production voice systems.
- Experience evaluating and tuning audio algorithms using objective metrics (e.g., POLQA, PESQ) and subjective listening tests.
- Experience with close-to-real-time systems and performance-sensitive code paths.
- Comfort with incremental development, testing, and A/B testing in production.
- Collaborative, self-directed, and eager to learn and share knowledge; experience steering AI via context and prompt design.
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 — Health coverage is described as robust with multiple plan options and access to onsite/virtual LifeConnections Health Centers on major campuses. Company materials also highlight mental-health resources and comprehensive preventive care, supporting strong core medical benefits.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away includes company‑wide recharge days, a paid birthday, a year‑end shutdown, and paid Critical Time Off for emergencies. Paid volunteer days further expand opportunities to step away and recharge.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies include a global minimum for paid parental leave for primary caregivers, caregiving concierge services, and on‑site children’s learning centers in select locations. In the U.S., family‑building support is consolidated under Carrot with a defined lifetime maximum, indicating structured assistance across fertility, preservation, adoption, and surrogacy.
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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.
