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Meet The Team
Our wireless access point software team builds a wide range of Wi-Fi access points including the latest Wi-Fi 7 APs (Access Points). Our software team covers platform bring up for everything from boot loaders to web servers on prototype hardware, kernel, driver integration, Wi-Fi features, wireless security, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) radio, and other sophisticated functions integrated into our product.In this team, you will get exposed to software for most advanced technologies for wireless infrastructure devices. Same team will also automate and qualify these platforms. Your contributions as part of this team will have direct impact into connectivity experience for critically important applications across the world.
Your Impact
You are deeply motivated and skilled Software developer and automation Engineer. You are expected to deliver and lead through others, as well as personally working to reach innovative solutions to business problems. You will work closely with other team members and cross functional teams to design a solution, implement it, and take it through qualification all the way to customer shipment and support. You are excited to be the one responsible for power-on and bringing life to the most advanced networking system in the world.
Responsibilities
- Review product requirements document and understand the customer use case.
- Work with senior architect to help in designing and drafting software functional specifications for a particular feature.
- Work with senior development engineers to develop the feature and participate in early unit test and integration test.
- Design Test Plan based on customer use cases.
- Participate in functional quality testing and end to end QA testing.
- Automate use cases using Pythons or Ruby.
- Participate in innovative Software test initiatives.
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing engineering standard methodologies.
- Accountable for the stability of our product with a high customer focus.
Minimum Qualification
Required skills:
- 1 to 3 years of experience with BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Excellent Python scripting/automation experience.
- Ability to write C and C++ professional production code.
- Have working experience in core network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ARP)
- Have effective interpersonal skills and a strong ability to collaborate with others.
- Experience in troubleshooting and problem solving with coding, testing, and debugging.
- Are proactive and willing to learn new things and tackle new challenges.
- You possess the skills to multi-task in dynamic environments.
- Ability to work with customers, understand their networking infrastructure, debug and solve their network problems.
- Prior experience with software quality assurance, test or test automation.
Preferred Skills
CCNA/CCNP/CWNA/CCIE certificate is a big plus.
- Cisco Wireless background specifically knowledge of 802.11 and Wi-Fi is desirable.
- Deep understanding of wireless protocols and network security fundamentals.
- Experience building cloud-based infrastructure and services (e.g. web applications)
- Experience with development and test tools like GitHub, Yocto, OpenWRT, Gerrit, GIT, Spirent or Ixia or iPerf Traffic generation etc.
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.
