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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