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Cisco Silicon One™ is Cisco’s revolutionary silicon architecture powering the next generation of web-scale, cloud, service provider, enterprise, and AI networking infrastructure. The Silicon One Software Customer Engineering team works closely with Silicon One architecture, SDK, platform software, and Network Operating System (NOS) teams, as well as strategic customers and ecosystem partners, to enable, integrate, optimize, support, and deploy Silicon One software solutions across a broad range of networking environments.
Our team serves as a critical bridge between silicon development, software engineering, and real-world deployments, helping accelerate feature adoption, optimize system performance, resolve complex customer challenges, and ensure successful integration of Silicon One technologies in production networks ranging from hyperscale cloud environments to large-scale AI/ML infrastructure.
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Technical Leader to help drive software integration, feature enablement, performance optimization, customer support, and customer adoption of Silicon One solutions across Cisco and open-source networking ecosystems.
As a Software Engineer on the Silicon One software team, you will contribute to the design, development, integration, and optimization of software solutions across Cisco and open-source Network Operating Systems.
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
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