Principal Software Engineer

Meet the Team

Join Cisco's distinguished Solution Architecture team within our Common Hardware organization, where innovation and collaboration drive everything we do. As part of this highly skilled group, you'll work alongside industry experts focused on bridging hardware and software-delivering seamless, high-performance networking solutions.

Our team plays a pivotal role in coordinating across multiple engineering and business units, ensuring technical operations run smoothly and product strategies remain closely aligned with customer needs. We actively engage with customers to brainstorm new features, shape product direction, and prioritize development efforts. Collaboration is at the heart of our work, as we work hand-in-hand with ASIC development, project management, and marketing teams to drive the success of our hardware and software solutions.

We value deep networking knowledge and technical expertise, especially from candidates with backgrounds in hardware and software integration. Our environment fosters continuous learning and cross-functional partnership, providing you with the opportunity to shape the next generation of networking technologies-including ASIC, SDK, and P4 development in the US.

If you are passionate about innovative networking architectures and eager to make a significant impact at scale, you'll thrive as part of our forward-thinking team.

In this role, you will serve as a key technical interface between our customers and internal teams. You will engage directly with customers to deeply understand their requirements, effectively communicate our ASIC and software capabilities, and articulate solutions with clarity and confidence. Collaborating closely with our development team, you will ensure that customer needs and expectations are accurately conveyed and addressed.

Your impact will be recognized through the following:

• Strengthening Customer Relationships:
  You will foster ongoing, close partnerships with customers through transparent communication and a deep understanding of their technical requirements and perspectives.
• Driving Customer Success:
  By accurately capturing customer needs and collaborating with the development team, you will help deliver features and solutions that meet or exceed expectations, resulting in high customer satisfaction.
• Shaping Product Strategy:
  Your insights from direct customer and industry engagement will influence the evolution of our ASIC and software roadmap, ensuring our offerings remain at the forefront of industry needs.
• Industry Leadership:
  You will proudly represent the Silicon One product portfolio to customers and industry experts, showcasing our innovation and technical excellence.

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE, or a related technical field and 12+ years of software development experience, OR Master’s degree and 8+ years of related experience. (example)
• 10+ years of experience in Networking field, either in software development or ASIC development or Network System architecture.
• Clear understanding of the data-path implementation of Networking function.
• Good communication skills including ability to cleary articulate technical challenges and solutions.

• 15+ years of experience in Networking field, either in software development or ASIC development or Network System architecture.
• Defined Network architecture, either for Networking ASIC or Software.
• Experience in working directly with customers and delivering features to customer.

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,…