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Cisco Meraki, a division of Cisco Networking, is a cloud-managed IT company and leader in cloud-controlled Wi-Fi, routing, and security. Our intuitive platform enables organizations of all sizes to deliver customer and employee experiences at scale. To provide best-in-class technologies to our customers, we’ve created an unrivaled company culture for our employees. One where diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences shape our work and fuel our evolution. One that is collaborative, flexible, and inclusive and provides employees with the autonomy to develop technology that’s accessible and secure for everyone.
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, and 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 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:
In this role, we are looking for someone to help us expand and refine the capabilities of our wireless access points beyond simply Wi-Fi. As the world becomes more connected the need to support and simplify that connectivity grows.
As a senior wireless driver engineer, you will be tasked with architecting and implementing systems that help establish Cisco Wireless APs as viable and fully capable IoT gateways. You will work with variety of sensors including, but not limited to environmental and security sensors, thermostats, door locks and more.
With millions of APs deployed worldwide, this is an unrivaled opportunity to create something that could have immediate and significant impact throughout the world.
Example projects for a Wireless Driver Engineer:
- Implement latest IEEE 802.11 features
- Implementing features and integrating into Qualcomm driver
- Crafting and implementing a secure and efficient authentication mechanism to allow safe and easy client connections
- Integrating drivers to add support for established protocols and systems
- Establishing a reporting system that is simple and intuitive and gives customers good insight into their network and clients
Required skills:
- 6+ years of experience with BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Are fluent in writing C and C++ professional production code.
- Have experience working with 802.11 protocols.
- Have working experience in access point, firmware and driver code, SDK integration.
- Understanding of OS fundamentals and experience working in both kernel space and user space
- Have effective interpersonal skills and a strong ability to collaborate with others
- Are proactive and willing to learn new things and tackle new challenges
Bonus points:
- Understanding of WiFi 6 & 7 features
- Understanding of WiFi security protocols
- Deep understanding of wireless protocols and network security fundamentals
- Experience working with version control, specifically Git
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.
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When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings. Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday, plus a day off for their birthday. Employees accrue up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year and have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues without tapping into their PTO. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community. Employees are also able to purchase company stock through our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
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