SONiC Platform Engineer

Meet the Team

• Work with best-in-class engineers and technical visionaries on a highly productive team owning next generation production development.
• Deliver advanced simulation solutions and infrastructure for internal and external customers.
• Support IOS-XR, SONIC, and NXOS network operating systems.
• Provide technology to customers to streamline adoption of Cisco hardware portfolio.

Your Impact

• Lead porting SONiC onto new Cisco ASICs (Silicon One) and virtual platforms.
• Configure ONIE, manage bootloaders, and ensure Debian-based OS initializes correctly on bare-metal hardware.
• Integrate and fine-tune Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) and Syncd layers.
• Own bring-up of peripheral components including thermal sensors, fans, PSUs, and optics through Platform APIs and BSP.
• Design and execute end-to-end qualification cycles to meet performance and stability benchmarks.
• Develop and maintain regression test suites using Pytest, PTF, and Ansible.
• Perform root-cause analysis of failures during bring-up using GDB, Tcpdump, and ASIC-level registers.
• Optimize development workflow using cutting edge LLM based tools.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors + 7 years, Masters + 4 years, or PhD + 1 year of related experience.
• 4+ years in Hardware Bring-up or NOS Platform Engineering.
• Experience qualifying networking platforms for high-scale data center deployments.
• Experience with Python for automated test frameworks and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Experience with Linux.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of SONiC architecture, including Redis (ConfigDB/StateDB), SwSS, and Syncd.
• Experience with ASIC SDKs and SAI standard.
• Expert knowledge of Linux kernel drivers, systems, and containerization (Docker) in networking.
• Hands-on experience with traffic generators (Spirent, IXIA) and open-source test tools like Scapy and PTF.

Why Cisco?

• Innovating for 40 years to create solutions powering human and technology collaboration.
• Provide unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across digital footprint.
• Collaborate globally with empathy to make big impacts.

Salary and Benefits

• Starting salary range: $165,000.00 to $241,400.00 for U.S. and Canada locations.
• Pay determined by location, market, skills, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and training.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision insurance, 401(k) with matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, basic life insurance.
• Paid time off includes holidays, floating holiday, birthday, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation, sick time, and volunteer days.
• Eligible for annual bonuses and performance-based incentive pay.

Application Window

• Expected to close on 06/26/2026.
• May close earlier if position is filled or sufficient applications received.