The application window is expected to close on: 09/11/2026 Meet the Team The Common Hardware Group (CHG) creates innovative hardware platforms central to the AI era, powering Cisco’s core Switching, Routing, and Wireless products for organizations globally. Our innovations in silicon, optics, and hardware platforms—like Silicon One—are shaping the technology industry. We're a global team of creative experts, bringing our unique backgrounds and bold ideas to push boundaries and help each other grow.
Because full product development—from design to qualification to production—is within our team, we’re able to think differently, experiment more, and work quickly. Join us to power the future of the digital world. Your Impact Build software systems for analyzing DVT test results, hardware configurations, and failure behavior to enable engineers to investigate hardware failures across platforms without manual log searching.
Develop workflows supporting fault isolation, comparative test analysis, and identification of recurring failure signatures to streamline diagnostic processes. Apply advanced software and AI techniques to complex hardware telemetry data, including ASICs, optics, power, and environmental metrics. Collaborate across the product lifecycle—from design to production—to ensure high-quality, scalable solutions that enhance the reliability of Cisco’s core networking hardware.
Deliver high-impact software architectures that serve as the backbone for next-generation hardware diagnostics and engineering efficiency. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 10+ years of experience, or a Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience. Proven experience building production services using Python, FastAPI, LangGraph, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, AWS Bedrock, OpenSearch, Docker, Kubernetes, and EKS.
Demonstrated experience architecting event-driven ingestion workflows using AWS services to process, validate, and normalize large volumes of structured and unstructured engineering data. Experience with metadata-driven and hybrid retrieval approaches for investigating test runs, hardware inventory, system configuration, and diagnostic outputs. Knowledge of reusable software architecture patterns for AI copilots, data-access tools, and production agent systems.
Preferred Qualifications Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, with the ability to resolve defects from kernel modules to application layers. Experience with collaborative system design, specification writing, and cross-functional requirements review. Commitment to quality, technical mentoring, and continuous learning in networking, optics, and embedded systems. Technical proficiency in AI/ML applications and knowledge of Layer 2/3 network protocols.
Familiarity with network processors, optical networking, secure-boot, open-source tools, and CMIS/SFF standards (SFP, QSFP). 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. Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada: The starting salary range posted for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires