Software Engineer

Location: Bangalore, India

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

 Meet the Team 

The Cisco Wireless Feature & System Engineering team builds end-to-end wireless capabilities across access points, controllers, and cloud-managed platforms. We design features that span device software, control planes, and management systems to deliver seamless, secure, and high-performance enterprise Wi-Fi.

Your Impact 

As a Wireless Radio Software Engineer, you will own development and integration of radio firmware and driver components, enable Wi-Fi features and ensuring system-level performance and reliability. Design and implement radio firmware and driver features, Wi-Fi feature development and integration, Debug complex issues across firmware, driver, and system layers, Analyze RF behavior, packet flows, and protocol interactions, Work closely with chipset vendors to resolve firmware/driver issues, Contribute to system-level validation and performance optimization, Apply AI-assisted tools to accelerate development, debugging, and analysis

Minimum Qualifications

• Have MS + ~3 years or BS + ~5 years of experience

• Strong C/C++ programming skills

• Good understanding of 802.11 protocols and wireless features

• Experience with driver or firmware-level development

• Ability to debug across multiple layers (firmware → driver → system)

• Strong understanding of networking and packet-level behavior

• Can own features development end-to-end

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Qualcomm/Broadcom/MediaTek platforms

• Experience with packet capture, RF debugging, or performance tuning

• Exposure to upstream driver contributions

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Why Cisco? 

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. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.