Software Engineer - BIOS Developer 8 to 10 years

## Responsibilities - Work on next generation data center products that enable large scale, low-latency, high speed networks. - Be part of product development from ground up (Platforms and Software). - Be part of a dynamic testing team which works hand-in-hand with development team as a cohesive unit to deliver world class quality products. - Have ownership of multiple components and play an important role in understanding new feature requirements, developing test design based on functional specifications, automating them and engaging with customers. - Interact with peer engineers / technical leaders within the BU on design/functional and architectural aspects of features and components across Cisco products. - Be responsible for testing, automating & enabling platform/software solutions for customers. - Work on the Storage Area Network along with Ethernet for Cisco's product line. ## Requirements - B.E/B.Tech/ME/Mtech/MS from reputed university and at least 8-12 years of software development experience in embedded systems or system software space. - Hands on Engineer/leader who can work along with senior folks contributing to Architecture, design and development of platform development cycle. - In depth understanding of hardware boards, layout. - In depth understanding of BIOS. - Development experience in one or more areas of BIOS/GRUB/uboot, linux device drivers/ Linux KLM, networking stack, memory model. - Development experience on PCH and peripherals PCI, I2C, SPI, Higig+ bus, FPGA and CPLD handling, handling os special devices and peripherals – I2C-GPIO expanders. - Exposure to standards – XAUI, SGMI, Serdes, SGMII, MSA. - Development experience in Chassis management. - Knowledge of asic forwarding, Linux drivers and 3rdparty ASICs/network processors highly desired. - Excellent debugging skills and rich experience using various hardware, memory debugging tools. - Develop innovative solutions to revolutionize for the next generation data center. - Ability to self-motivate with a strong desire to learn, and ability to be flexible. - Flexibility in a fast paced, ever-changing, deadline-driven environment. - Develop SDK for next generation feature rich network ASIC. ## Nice to Have - Working experience in merchant silicon. - Experience working on Scalable, Distributed Architectures a plus. - Experience with Network Switches desirable. - Strong written & verbal communication skills. - Ability to multi-task and solve complex problems. - Ability to drive a team towards results. - Consistent track record of learning new technologies and features on own initiative. - A demonstrable passion for technology and software development. ## Benefits - Connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. - Innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to shape the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. - Celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. - Work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. - Our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.