Software Engineering Technical Lead

Cisco; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Technical Leader to join their innovative team focused on AI/ML capabilities in networking. This role involves designing, developing, and executing tests to qualify network performance, leveraging strong Python automation skills. You'll work in a collaborative environment, leading projects and mentoring team members while engaging with customers to gather requirements. Join a forward-thinking company at the forefront of network transformation, where your contributions will help shape the future of technology and infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in relevant fields or equivalent education.
• 5+ years of Python automation experience required.

Responsibilities

• Lead discussions with customers to gather technical requirements.
• Develop and enhance test frameworks and benchmarking tools.

Skills

Python Automation

Networking Systems Testing

Communication Skills

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's in STEM

Master's in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

PyTest

Traffic Generators

Job description

Meet the Team:

The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads and continuously increasing internet users and application. We are uniquely positioned to capture that market transition. This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture.

This solutions team collaborates directly with large webscaler customers to replicate their networks and prepare software and hardware before deployment. With a broad range of expertise and strong communication skills, the team works on short sprints across Cisco's product lineup, focusing on SONiC for web-scale environments, including AIML, routers, and switches.

Your Impact:

As a Technical Leader, you'll be part of an agile team engaged in the design, development and execution of tests to qualify network performance for AI/ML capability. You will be a part of our solutions team which works in a fast-paced environment and be responsible for end-to-end product testing and production support.

In this role you will leverage your strong Python automation skills for scripting and testing, with some opportunities for development work. You will work with automation frameworks like PyTest to automate and streamline the testing process. You will be expected to both learn from and make contributions to the open-source community to drive innovative solutions in this space. Other responsibilities will include:

1. Leading discussions with customers and gathering technical requirements
2. Building out testing environments for system/solution validation
3. Developing and enhancing test frameworks and benchmarking tools
4. Defining and gathering data for network performance benchmarking
5. Troubleshooting customer issues
6. Leading projects and mentoring other team members

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's in STEM with 8+ years of relevant experience or Master's in STEM with 6+ years of relevant experience or PhD in STEM with 3+ years of relevant experience.
2. 5+ years of experience writing automation with Python
3. 3+ years of experience configuring, testing or debugging networking systems and solutions
4. Experience with PyTest or similar open-source QA automation frameworks

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience working with test frameworks, traffic generators (commercial & open source) including examples
2. Previous experience in a customer facing environment
3. Previous experience leading teams
4. Exposure to network operating systems, preferably SONiC
5. Knowledge of control & data plane technologies including L2, L3, VXLAN, segment Routing and/or MPLS
6. Exposure to RDMA, HPC networks
7. Knowledge of RoCE and Infini band protocols

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