Embedded Linux Software Engineer – Networking & Device Drivers with C/C++ |5-8 Years

Overview

Design, develop and bring up low-level and embedded software, including control plane, data plane, BSP and device drivers, for Cisco IIoT industrial switching and routing products.

What you'll do

• Design and development of IIoT hardware platforms, ensuring flawless integration between hardware and software layers.
• Build and develop control plane and data plane software for Cisco IIoT switching and routing products.
• Design and develop low-level software components, including BSP, device drivers and kernel modules.
• Analyze requirements and problem statements to come up with the right software designs and solutions.
• Write detailed design documents and functional specifications.
• Code and unit test software components and modules.
• Apply strong white-box testing and test automation skills.
• Triage, debug and root-cause issues, simulate, bring up software, and resolve customer failures.
• Innovate and generate new insights that can lead to patent filings and IP value for the company.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree (5-8 years) or Master's degree (3-6 years) in Computer Science, EE/ECE or a related field.
• Proficient in writing quality code in C/C++.
• Strong hardware and device driver development background, including experience with Linux hardware bring-up.
• Proven experience in hardware and device driver development, including Linux hardware bring-up, multi-threading, event handling and state machine implementation.
• Strong understanding of operating systems (e.g. Linux, RTOS, Unix) and experience working with the Linux kernel, device drivers and BSPs.
• Prior experience developing, debugging and validating embedded systems using protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART, PCIe and GPIO.
• Experience in developing software/firmware for networking equipment.
• Hands-on experience with Gen AI assistant technologies, natural language processing (NLP) or Gen AI technologies (OpenAI, Gemini, MCP, Agentic AI, etc.).

Nice to have

• Experience using traffic generators/analyzers such as IXIA or Sniffer.
• Prior experience in kernel programming, open-source technologies and kernel debugging tools such as GDB and KGDB.
• Experience in development and validation of peripheral interfaces (e.g. PCI, PCIe, I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO, Ethernet) and ensuring their reliable operation.
• Cisco networking certificates such as CCNA, CCNP or CCIE.
• Experience with AI/ML and Agentic AI frameworks.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.