Software / QA Engineer, Emerging Talent

As the leader in cloud-managed IT, Cisco Meraki Wireless connects passionate people to their mission by simplifying the digital workplace. Our impact is driven by the innovative, purposeful, and vibrant people who make up our inclusive community. When technology is intuitive, our customers can focus on what matters.

Our employees fuel the magic of the Cisco Meraki community. They have fostered an environment that empowers Merakians to challenge limits, embrace risks, and assist our customers in pursuing their missions.

Our guiding principles are rooted in our four core values: 'care deeply,' 'everybody in,' 'simplify everything,' and 'be brave.' These pillars have propelled us to the forefront of cloud-managed IT leadership and have played a pivotal role in shaping a more inclusive future for all.

At Cisco Meraki Wireless, we simplify and secure wireless enterprise connectivity across the world. We are the market leader, and we serve a wide range of customers which includes office building for largest companies in the world, hospitals, universities, schools, factories, mines, hotels, retail shops, stadiums, large public venues.

Our wireless access point software team builds a wide range of Wi-Fi access points including the latest Wi-Fi 7 APs (Access Points). Our software team covers platform bring up for everything from boot loaders to web servers on prototype hardware, kernel, driver integration, Wi-Fi features, wireless security, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) radio, and other sophisticated functions integrated into our product.

In this team, you will get exposed to software for most advanced technologies for wireless infrastructure devices. Same team will also automate and qualify these platforms. Your contributions as part of this team will have direct impact into connectivity experience for critically important applications across the world.

What You'll Do

You are deeply motivated and skilled Software developer and automation Engineer. You are expected to deliver and lead through others, as well as personally working to reach innovative solutions to business problems. You will work closely with other team members and cross functional teams to design a solution, implement it, and take it through qualification all the way to customer shipment and support. You are excited to be the one responsible for power-on and bringing life to the most advanced networking system in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Review product requirements document and understand the customer use case.
• Work with senior architect to help in designing and drafting software functional specifications for a particular feature.
• Work with senior development engineers to develop the feature and participate in early unit test and integration test.
• Design Test Plan based on customer use cases.
• Participate in functional quality testing and end to end QA testing.
• Automate use cases using Pythons or Ruby.
• Participate in innovative Software test initiatives.
• Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelizing engineering standard methodologies.
• Accountable for the stability of our product with a high customer focus.
  
  

Required skills:

• 2+ years of experience with BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Excellent Python or Ruby scripting/automation experience.
• Ability to write C and C++ professional production code.
• Have working experience in core network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ARP)
• Have effective interpersonal skills and a strong ability to collaborate with others.
• Are proactive and willing to learn new things and tackle new challenges.
• You possess the skills to multi-task in dynamic environments.
• Ability to work with customers, understand their networking infrastructure, debug and solve their network problems.
  
  

Bonus points:

• CCNA/CCNP/CWNA/CCIE certificate is a big plus.
• Cisco Wireless background specifically knowledge of 802.11 and Wi-Fi is desirable.
• Deep understanding of wireless protocols and network security fundamentals.
• Experience building cloud-based infrastructure and services (e.g. web applications)
• Experience with development and test tools like GitHub, Yocto, OpenWRT, Gerrit, GIT, Spirent or Ixia or iPerf Traffic generation etc.
  
  

We encourage you to drop us a line even if you don’t have all the points above. That's a lot of different areas of responsibility! We will help you pick them up because we believe that great engineers come from a diverse set of backgrounds.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case-by-case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

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