Job ID: 2000352

Meet the Team

As a global technology leader, Cisco has been transforming how people connect, communicate, and collaborate for decades. Our innovation in networking, security, and cloud-based solutions enables organizations to drive digital transformation and achieve their business goals. The Collaboration Employee Experience organization creates workspace solutions that connect people, places, and experiences.

Located just outside of Oslo, our Devices innovation center is home to 300+ passionate engineers working across hardware, software, mechanics, audio, media processing and artificial intelligence - from concept to product. We strive to create best-in-class video conferencing experiences by bringing together diverse engineering teams under one roof.

One of the engineering teams located in the Devices innovation center is the “Real-Time Media" team, who are now looking for a software engineer to join the team and help us push the limit of what we can achieve even further. Our goal is to make our devices deliver best-in-class media quality across the globe under any network conditions. To do this we use world-leading technologies in combination with analysis of metrics and an automated test lab where we continuously run advanced scenarios on real devices.

You will be part of a software team, but also work closely with product management and other engineering teams in Cisco to improve our products.

Your Impact

You are a software engineer with a passion for media that enjoys looking at all building blocks within real-time media coding and transport. This may range from transporting media over a LAN or globally over the public internet under varying network conditions. You thrive in a collaborative team environment, actively contributing to a culture of continuous learning, while also demonstrating strong ownership and independent problem-solving skills. You will:

• Build features and maintain functionality by writing software in C/C++/Python

• Build software with quality while paying attention to details

• Help the team focus on continuous improvement, either it being related to a piece of code or internal processes

• Apply metrics and data analytics to continuously improve media quality.

Minimum Qualifications

• You hold a degree in computer science or equivalent

• Programming experience in C++ / Python

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience and passion for working with metrics and data analytics.

• Have some experience with media transport protocols and/or video encoding technology

• Experience with embedded platforms and an interest for low level programming

• Good problem-solving, debugging and analytical skills

• Test focused attitude when writing software

• Good collaboration and communication skills

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.