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Software Engineering Technical Leader - Wireless

San Francisco, California, US💼 Full-time💰 $186,900–$186,900🗓 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead Firmware Engineer driving performance evaluation and optimization for Cisco Meraki's cloud-managed WLAN Access Point ecosystem, serving millions of active devices globally.

Role type

Senior IC firmware engineer (wireless performance)

Builds

MR Access Point firmware and data plane optimizations for cloud-managed WLAN solutions

Domain

Networking / Wireless / Embedded Systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

C/C++ programming, Wi-Fi drivers and firmware development, Linux and embedded systems, TCP/IP and UDP protocols, 802.11 wireless standards, network protocols (DNS, DHCP, VLANs), packet capture analysis (Wireshark)

Preferred skills

System performance optimization (profiling, data structures/algorithms), performance testing tools (iperf, Ixia), hardware/software acceleration (DPDK, VPP, multi-threading), Yocto build systems, AI-assisted development tools

Technologies

C, C++, Linux, Wireshark, iperf, Ixia, DPDK, VPP, Yocto, 802.11

Responsibilities

Evaluate and optimize performance on MR Access Point devices; solve functional and performance regressions in firmware; design and implement data plane optimizations; develop comprehensive tests and processes for triaging issues; lead small-to-medium features from design to completion.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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