Software Engineer - (Linux, C, Redfish, IPMI, SNMP)

Application window is expected to close on 8/11/2025

Meet the Team

We are Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) Chassis Management Software team, responsible for developing and maintaining the chassis management software for Cisco's UCS blade server product line. Our team plays a meaningful role in delivering the reliability, performance, and innovation customers expect from Cisco’s data center solutions. Collaborating closely with hardware, platform and cloud teams, we help to deliver the future of compute infrastructure.

Your Impact

As a software engineer in the UCS Chassis Management team, you will be in a team of skilled engineers crafting, maintaining and supporting embedded chassis management software for Cisco's UCS family of products. You are someone naturally curious about how things work and looking for a role in which you can continue to learn and grow your skills, influence and career.

• Design and implement platform chassis management software for next-generation UCS products.
• Collaborate with hardware, SQA and other software teams.
• Investigate and help resolve complicated field issues.
• Identify and help deliver quality improvements.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience in C programming.
• 5+ years of Linux embedded software development experience
• Experience developing and debugging multi-threaded Linux applications.
• Experience with chassis or baseboard management controller software (CMC, BMC) or similar.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Chassis power management or Chassis thermal management is a plus.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Shell (Bash) or Python is preferred.
• Experience implementing proprietary or standard management protocols such as SNMP, IPMI, Redfish is a plus.
• Experience with embedded systems buses such as I2C, PMBus, SPI, PCIe is preferred.
• Socket-based programming and the ability to read schematics is a plus.
• Linux kernel and driver experience is preferred.

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