Job ID: 2002693

Meet the Team

This is an excellent opportunity to join Cisco's fastest growing product UCS in Cisco's Computing Systems Group. We are looking for Software/Firmware Engineers who strive in a dynamic start up like environment. You will be working with the team who are providing the design and technical vision for the next generation UCS Servers, AI-Edge data center Server Platforms and products that enable cloud/datacenter scale deployments.

What You’ll Do

The job involves working on Cisco UCS Rack Server platform development activities. This team develops Software and Firmware for Cisco UCS platforms. These include development of Server BMC (a.k.a Cisco Integrated Management Controller) Firmware, Software, tools and utilities.

In this role, you will be working with the team who create and develop technical charter and provide technical vision for Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) activities, working on development of some of the latest UCS server platforms, bug-fixes and enhancements for the UCS platforms. You will be in the UCS Rack Server team, Bangalore, which is a key part of Cisco's Data Centre strategy.

Who You Are

We are looking for Systems and Firmware development Engineers who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment. You will be working with a dedicated team and open communications, empowerment, innovation, collaboration and customer success are the foundations of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Systems and Firmware Engineer in the Platform BMC development team

• Demonstrate a high degree of originality in design/development activities Be an engineer working across different architectures and environments

• Work with different teams (BIOS, UTILITES, QA and Release teams) for enhancement and development of the BMC

• Contribute in the design of interfaces between products to ensure interoperability.

• Design and develop software in an Embedded Linux (or similar) OS environment for Cisco UCS server platforms.

• Design and develop system software to meet the specification of platform requirements.

• Excellent experience in Firmware, Device Driver and Embedded/Real time systems development.

• Good knowledge of x86 and ARM architectures.

• Very Strong Expertise in C and other programming (preferably any one of, Python/Rust/Go) language(s) expertise is a plus.

• Data Centre/Cloud platform engineering expertise

• Excellent verbal and written skills and professional presentation.

Desired Experience and Skills

• Experience in Server/Firmware chassis platform technologies

• 5 or more Years of experience

• BE/BTech/ME/MTech in Electronics/Computer Science preferred.

• Hands on experience in management controller firmware development (BMC) and IPMI/Redfish.

• Experience in HW tools like JTAG debuggers, I2C/I3C analysers, Oscilloscopes and flash memory programmers.

• Experience in Industry standard protocols like SPI, I3C, PCIe, NVMe, CXL and other Interconnect/Server technologies

• Understanding and experience with DMTF standards

• Experience with GIT/Bitbucket

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.