Who You'll Work with

You will be part of the platform engineering team of CHG (Common Hardware group). Work with a team that has designed the worlds most scalable routersfor some of the largest Service Providers. You work on bring up and hardware diagnostics based validation for router hardware (access & core routers). The router Hardware that has a rich set of network interfaces OTN/SONET/SDH/GiGe/T1/E1 and forwarding ASICs that provide high throughput. You will work closely with the hardware engineers to understand the design of the next generation hardware.

What You'll Do

You will come up with the diagnostics design to validate the hardware and be the first one to bring up the hardware when it comes from the manufacturing facility. You will have to come up with Validation strategy for each interface to catch all the HW design issues early during the development cycle to ensure that customers get a proven hardware design to run their network.

You will need to dive deep into platform/network interfaces/hardware bus technologies while debugging issues and also work at a system level when bringing up a board. You will write code in C for device initialization and test code that will validate the hardware design. Manufacturing teams use our code for hardware validation, detecting and isolating faults. Work with the Signal integrity teams to measure and validate the jitter on high speed interfaces. Thermal teams use the Diagnostics software for thermal validation too.

There is also opportunity to work on optimizing test algorithms, and influencing hardware design for testability as well.

Who You Are

•  12+  years of experience in Diagnostics software development for router hardware/hardware validation.

• Alternatively 5 to 8years of experience in Platform/firmware/Device driver development for router hardware in C.

• Excellent C programming skills

• Excellent skills in debugging low level platform/driver/diagnostics/HW issues

• Preferably, has worked closely with H/w engineering teams in the development & debug of platform/device driver/diagnostics/hardware issues.

• Works independently with minimal direction.

• Experience with Linux OS/device drivers/firmware.

• Experience in working with drivers/diagnostics for various network interfaces like OTN/SONET/SDH/DS3/GiGE/T1/E1 and L2/L3 forwarding engines/ASICs

• Experience in working with device level programming for HW busses like I2C, PCIe, SPI, MDIO.

Why Cisco!

#WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all.

We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think were old (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but were also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do you cant put us in a box!

But Digital Transformation is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.)

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward.

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