Diagnostics Development Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Service Provided Networking Group – Central Engineering (SPNG-CE)

You will be part of a global hardware Diagnostics development team, a very dynamic group usually working in a fast paced environment. You will closely interact with Diagnostics team members and cross-functional teams from around the world (China, India, Canada and Italy). As a Diagnostics Engineer you will be exposed to state-of-the-Art technologies used in Core and Edge routing Cisco products.
Your main focus will be to ensure high quality of our Products, by developing component and system level embedded software. The diagnostics Software is target to verify ASIC, FPGA, Board and system designs in Engineering as well as Manufacturing.
We are looking for motivated individuals, outgoing who enjoy challenging tasks. Excellent Software background and strong understanding of Hardware is required. Solid problem solving skills and ability to troubleshoot software and hardware issues are highly desirable.
We offer a great opportunity to grow your technical skills set and gain visibility and recognition among others groups.

ROLE and RESPONSABILITIES

•   Design and develop component and system level
  diagnostics software/firmware for system, board, FPGA and ASIC design verification and validation in engineering and manufacturing.
•   Author diagnostic functional specification to provide guidelines for implementation to achieve the highest level of test coverage with fault isolation at the component level.
•   Provide inputs to the hardware team for Design-For-Testability (DFT). Work closely with HW design, SW development and manufacturing teams, and promote team collaboration.
•   Initiate informal reviews of ideas and technical objectives within and across functional teams
•   Develop and execute detailed test plans and automate software tools to validate diagnostics software. Requires hands-on test automation and programming experience.

REQUIREMENTS:

Essential Skills (MUST):

•   MSEE/CS combined or MSCE with 2+ years of related experience
•   BSEE/CS combined or BSCE with 4+ years of related experience
•   Excellent “C” programming skills
•   Solid background in hardware
•   Seeking candidates with good driver-level or embedded software skills/experience.
•   Familiarity with UNIX development environment
•   Strong problem solving and debugging skills
•   Ability to translate engineering and manufacturing customerrequirements into design objectives
•   Self-motivated and able to work effectively in a team environment
•   Good English written/oral communication skills
•   Ability to design, plan, and schedule a complex diagnostics projectDesirable Skills :

 OS and Kernel development experience

 Relevant industry experience with routers/switches.
 Experience with test equipments (eg: oscilloscope, logic analyzer)  Experience with assembly programming language
 Experience in team and project management

Justification

 Diagnostic team is critically under staffed for the past few years. In order to scale and support the increasing number of projects from our Client BU , we need to add new developers to the team, to ensure high quality SW and support is delivered.