Software Engineer (Firmware)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026. Cisco Systems scores A on the Alion truth index.
Meet the Team
At Cisco Meraki, we know that technology can connect, empower, and drive us. Our mission is to simplify technology so our customers can focus on what's most meaningful to them: their students, patients, customers, and businesses. We’re making networking easier, faster, and smarter with technology that simply works.
The modern world runs on the internet, and the internet cannot exist without its underlying infrastructure. Meraki makes setting up, managing, and maintaining that infrastructure easier than it has ever been before. Meraki enables connectivity everywhere from neighborhood cafes to education institutions to global hospitality groups operating thousands of sites.
Your Impact
As a member of the Core Product team, you will be responsible for crafting and implementing features that improve the reliability, simplicity, security, and performance of our products. Our projects are driven by technological innovation and developer creativity in addition to market demands, giving you the structure and freedom to pursue projects you are most passionate about. With millions of people using Meraki products around the world, your work will have a significant impact from the day it is deployed.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Product Security team to continually improve the security of our products
- Work closely with the Hardware Engineering team to add support for new Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs)
- Create/update/maintain bootloaders and device drivers that interact with TPMs
- Participate and lead in the design and development of platform and system level software/firmware for Meraki products
- Collaborate with engineers across product teams to architect features that delight our customers
- Participate in code reviews and mentor junior engineers
- Drive debugging of issues when things don't go as planned
Minimum Qualification
- 4+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years of experience writing production code in C/C++
- Experience with embedded security technologies such as Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), Secure Boot, Cryptography
- The ability to work and collaborate across multiple product lines and hardware stacks
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related degree
Nice to have
- Expertise in networking, especially with SSL/TLS
- Experience with security-related aspects of systems design, hardening, and vulnerability patch management
- Experience with embedded systems development such as Yocto and buildroot
- Experience with BSPs, U-Boot, and Linux integration
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Jenkins
- Passion to improve code, implement reusable design patterns, and use industry best coding practices
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.
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