Director, Engineering (Silicon One - SDK) Common Hardware Group

Cisco Silicon One is the center of Cisco's ASIC design and is driving the development of next-generation network devices for the 5G and AI era.

Our outstanding team works in a startup atmosphere within a stable and leading corporate environment, and our design center hosts all silicon Hardware and Software development fields under one roof.

Our devices are crafted for universal adaptability, delivering high speed without sacrificing programmability, buffering, power efficiency, scale, or feature flexibility. The Cisco Silicon One team develops breakthrough silicon products.

We enable the use of these innovative products in the fast-paced world of Open Standards, Open Networking, and massively Scalable Cloud Data Centers. If you want to work with amazing people and cutting-edge customers developing the next generation of world-class products, join us!

• Close interaction with customers to gather requirements, explain system design, share timelines, address difficulties, questions, issues, help in adoption.
• Lead technical team to implement features that are aligned to customer expectations now and will address their expectation in the future.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams, including Silicon One architects, software engineers and senior partners to ensure the alignment of Silicon One software initiatives and development work with business objectives.
• Lead the design and architecture of robust software systems, making design choices and dictating coding standards, tools, and platforms.
• Drive the adoption of standard processes in coding, testing, documentation and maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding and mentoring a team of Software Engineers, driving technical excellence in SDK/SAI API development.
• Design, develop, and maintain APIs that expose Silicon One capabilities to various teams, ensuring scalability, reliability, and ease of use.
• Implement robust monitoring and logging solutions to track the performance and health of deployed silicon one software, enabling issue resolution.
• Ensure that silicon one software and APIs meet security and compliance standards, collaborating closely with security teams to implement necessary measures.

Our team develops the full software stack enabling the Silicon One network processors. We work with the Open Standards community and our awesome customers to deliver best in class routing and switching platforms. We work also with architecture and design teams to define the next generation of ASIC products being developed.

These platforms play a key role in the emerging field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We work with subject-matter experts around the world who share a common mission to deliver world-class products and to have fun doing it.

You are a creative and skilled technical professional who excels at solving complex problems. As a passionate innovator and self-starter, you turn strategic visions into reality.

Using your strong communication, empathy, and analytical abilities you collaborate effectively by listening, finding common ground, and working as a team to find the best product solutions.You have a high awareness which will guide you in generating trust with the customer. You are very organized enabling you to scale across multiple customer conversations well. You are able to piece together fragments of information and discover customer requirements that can guide our products to match these requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering or related field or 14+ years of experience in IT, Software Engineering field.
• Proven experience serving in the capacity of Director or an Engineering Leader, Principal Engineer.
• Demonstrable experience in the computer networking field and writing production grade software in C++, Python in a relevant product area (eg: ASIC)
• 7+ years of experience leading the design and development of software systems.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to address complex issues.
• Proven experience in building software stack for ASIC or similar network processors.
• Ability to constantly identify, follow and learn innovative technologies, work in a fast-paced, team-focused environment.
• Experience mentoring peers at all levels, been a manager of managers.
• Experience with SONiC, SAI or another Network OS.
• Knowledge of security and compliance standards.
• Experience with cloud, data center, or edge networking products

The Internet of Everything is a phenomenon driving new opportunities for Cisco and it's redefining our customers' businesses worldwide. We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity. Today, we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile, cloud, security, IT, including software and consulting services. As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet, we are connecting the unconnected. Imagine creating unprecedented disruption. Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail, healthcare, and entertainment to public and private sectors, and far beyond. Collaborate with like-minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place to work. With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future, your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.

Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward. So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. A passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us!

We offer extensive employee benefits including 20 days of PTO, 10 paid volunteering days, paid birthday off, 401k match with NO vesting, generous health/dental/vision benefits and much more.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.