Job Detail

What You'll Do

Looking forward to getting an exciting start to your career? You will bring your outstanding talents to the Cisco CSG group that builds intelligent networking products and platforms for many different applications! Core Software Group has the charter for all Platform Independent and Platform Dependent software development across Switching (for data center, campus core and campus access), wireless, network services, routing, optical software and routing and cable access.

As a Software Engineer, you will be involved in the solution of new challenging problems. You will develop wireless products and industry-leading software platforms that capitalize on the trend toward all devices, machines, and vehicles becoming connected and integrated with traditional enterprise networks. Build high performance, highly scalable, multi-cloud environment, complex and distributed systems - end to end. Participate in the full software development lifecycle for a large system – at scale. The main responsibilities are:

• Design and develop new features for Cisco Wireless LAN controllers and access points: writing specifications, coding, unit testing and integration of the code across multiple platforms.


• Test on simulated and real hardware in typical customer scenarios as well as stress and scale scenarios.


• Contribute to the automation of unit, integration, feature and system level testing.


• Support and maintain the quality of the software: help customers to debug issues and fix defects.


• Plan, design, operate and improve continuous integration and automated testing systems; write, deliver and maintain tests for the toolset.

Who You'll Work With

Be part of building next generation scalable wireless solutions.

As an integral member of this team, you will work with a diverse group of engineers at all career levels. We architect, design, and develop some of the key features that are continuously evolving towards enabling the support of newer and exciting customer business paradigms. You will be interacting and working closely with some of the finest talent in the industry – where you will find that work is both fun and challenging!

Who You Are

Excellent quality is what drives you. To ensure this, you have a good understanding of embedded software and basic knowledge of L2 & L3 networking protocols. You possess the necessary skills to work in a highly collaborative, inclusive, and agile atmosphere in partnership with multi-functional teams.

Education and Experience

University degree in computer science, electrical engineering or equivalent. Additional experience in the form of internships and working student positions are a plus.

Mandatory skills

• Ability to write good software in Python, C and C++.


• Proven networking experience including TCP/IP and networking protocols.


• Confirmed problem-solving skills.


• Experience in troubleshooting and debugging.


• Adaptable, proactive and willing to learn and take ownership.


• Strong interpersonal skills are key. You should be able to multitask with multiple and distributed teams.

Desired Skills

We have multiple ongoing projects related to innovative wireless technologies that require a wide range of skills. We welcome the following skills (but not all) in order to be able to work on one of our projects:

• Experience with real-time O/S and with Unix/Linux development tools.


• Wireless Networking Technologies and 802.11.


• Geometry, Trigonometry, Linear algebra, coding in HTML, CSS and Javascript (particularly THREE.js).


• Experience in data analysis and good knowledge of SQL, Spark, Redis.


• Cloud technologies, Kubernetes, Docker.

Why Cisco

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking bold risks to craft the technologies that give us smart cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unique personalities who aren’t afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns.

We are thought leaders with vision, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers.

We Are Cisco.