Join Our Team at the Forefront of AI Infrastructure Innovation

As AI infrastructure grows exponentially, it is crucial to redesign our optical systems to tackle the increasing challenges related to cost, power, and rack space. To support this growth, we must focus on simplifying and designing cost-efficient optical solutions. Join our innovative team and experience the excitement of complete product development from design to deployment.

Our team has delivered two Pioneer (now Pinnacle) Award products at Cisco.

Who You'll Work With

Cisco Networking Engineering (CNE), formerly known as Distributed Systems Engineering (DSE), is a multi-billion-dollar business that generates its revenue primarily from the Web, Service Provider Edge, Core, and Optical markets. The organization in India handles the development of high-end routers like ASR9000, NCS5500, NCS540, NCS560, NCS5700, and optical products like NCS1010, NCS1014, NCS1004, NCS4000, and NCS2000 series. We offer exciting career opportunities for enthusiastic and experienced software professionals in India.

Key Qualifications:

• Proven leadership experience in managing and developing high-performance teams.
• Strong background in embedded development using C/C++/Python.
• Experience in developing control loops for hyperscalers.
• Hands-on experience with DWDM transmission systems, including coherent transponders, EDFAs, Raman amplifiers, and ROADMs.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• Experience with test-driven development is desirable.
• Strong documentation skills to ensure use cases are clear.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
• Architect flex-grid long-haul line systems, considering transmission characteristics of fiber and line system elements, including signal power/OSNR evolution and fiber nonlinearities.
• Collaborate on the architecture, design, and validation of distributed, link-level optical line system control systems in close cooperation with software development and test teams.
• Work in a co-development model with key hyperscalers to design future systems.
• Work closely with the test team to validate and simplify solutions.
• Create comprehensive documentation to ensure use cases are clear.
• Drive the overall strategy and vision for your team's contributions to the AI infrastructure space.

Come and join us in leading the next wave of AI infrastructure innovation!

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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

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