Drimva

Cisco

Senior Software Engineer

$149K–$282K

Milpitas, California, US · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 13, 2026

Experience
7+ years with a Bachelor’s degree, 4+ years with a Master’s degree, or 1+ years with a PhD; additionally, 3+ years in Python automation and 2+ years configuring, testing, or debugging networking systems and solutions.
Education
Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in STEM, with the experience alternatives stated in the posting.

About the job

Qualifies network performance for AI/ML capabilities by developing and running tests, supporting deployments, and troubleshooting customer issues across networking systems.

What you'll do

  • Gather customer requirements and build or maintain system and solution testing environments.
  • Develop test frameworks and benchmarking tools, define performance metrics, and collect benchmark data.
  • Troubleshoot complex customer issues, perform root-cause analysis, and contribute to technical projects and the open-source community.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor’s degree in STEM with 7+ years of relevant experience, or Master’s degree in STEM with 4+ years, or PhD in STEM with 1+ years.
  • 3+ years of experience in Python automation scripting.
  • 2+ years of experience configuring, testing, or debugging networking systems and solutions.
  • Experience with PyTest or similar open-source QA automation frameworks, and control/data plane technologies including L2/L3 networking, BGP, ECMP, and VXLAN-based EVPN fabrics.

Nice to have

  • Experience with test frameworks and traffic generators; prior customer-facing experience.
  • Exposure to network operating systems, preferably SONiC; familiarity with RDMA, HPC networks, RoCE, or InfiniBand.

Pay

$167,700.00 to $245,200.00 USD base salary; $167,700.00 - $282,000.00 USD base salary (New York City Metro Area); $149,100.00 - $250,900.00 USD base salary (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)

Tools

Python, PyTest, L2/L3 networking, BGP, ECMP, VXLAN-based EVPN fabrics, SONiC, RDMA

AI focus

Tests and benchmarks network performance for AI/ML capabilities and workloads.

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First seen Oct 16, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)