Cisco embedded software engineer recruitment 2026, Bangalore

Cisco embedded software engineer recruitment 2026 is open in Bangalore. Read the experience line before anything else. The minimum block asks for one to three years with a bachelor's degree. With a master's degree it asks for one to two years. So this is not a fresher opening.

Cisco posted the job on 2 September 2026. The location on the page is Bangalore, India. The listing's own job data marks the role full time. No pay figure is published.

The seat sits with the Cisco IIOT team. That team does product development for Industrial IoT switching and routing products. Cisco says the team pairs the resources of a large multi-geography company with the culture of a smaller one. It names an on-site gym, healthcare, a cafe, social interest groups and philanthropy on the campus.

Who the listing is written for

The minimum block names two degree routes. One is a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, EE or ECE. The other is a master's degree in the same subjects. Cisco adds "or related fields" to both. So the list of accepted degrees stays open.

The years sit next to each degree. A bachelor's holder needs one to three years. A master's holder needs one to two. If you finish your degree in 2026 with no work behind you, you do not meet that line yet.

The page is still worth reading if you are in your final year. It is a dated, specific list of what a networking company wants from a Cisco embedded software engineer. Very little of it is theory. Almost all of it is C, C++, Linux and hardware.

What the IIoT team builds

The products are industrial IoT switches and routers. Cisco says the team's work transforms industrial operations. The page names no customer, no site and no product model.

Two software layers come up again and again in the duties. One is the control plane. The other is the data plane. Below both sits the low level work: BSP, device drivers and kernel modules.

The work Cisco lists on this page

Cisco prints eight duties. They are short and they are concrete.

• Design and develop IIoT hardware platforms, and keep the hardware and software layers integrated.
• Design and develop control plane and data plane software for Cisco IIOT switching and routing products.
• Design and develop low level software components, including BSP, device drivers and kernel modules.
• Read requirements and problem statements, then work out the right software design for them.
• Write detailed design documents and functional specifications.
• Code and unit test software components and modules. Cisco says strong white box testing and automation skills are required here.
• Triage, debug and root cause simulation, software bring-up and customer failures.
• Come up with new ideas that can lead to patent filings for the company.

Patent filing sits in that duty list, alongside the coding and the debugging.

What a Cisco embedded software engineer needs to know

Seven items sit in the minimum list. One of them is the degree. These are the other six.

• You write quality code in C or C++.
• You have a strong grasp of operating systems, and you have worked with the Linux kernel and device drivers. Cisco gives Linux, RTOS and Unix as examples, so other systems can count too.
• You have built software or firmware for networking equipment.
• Traffic generator and analyser work counts as a plus. Cisco names IXIA and Sniffer as examples.
• You know debugging and verification methods.
• You have used AI tools for software development.

The last one is worth a second look. Cisco puts AI tool use in the minimum list. The preferred list below it never mentions AI at all.

The preferred list is longer and softer. It asks for prior work on control plane or data plane software, data structures, and Linux, RTOS or networking OS internals. It then gives you a choice. Either strong L2 and L3, wireless or security protocol work in networking, or work on peripheral interfaces. Cisco gives PCI, PCIe, I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO and Ethernet as examples of those interfaces. Cisco networking certificates such as CCNA, CCNP or CCIE are called desirable.

Nothing in the preferred list is a bar to applying. Say you are two years out and you already have the C and C++ plus the kernel work. Then the rest of that list is a study plan.

How to apply, and the warning Cisco prints itself

Applications for the Cisco embedded software engineer role go through the Cisco careers site. The listing carries no closing date, so there is no last date to quote. Cisco does not publish a salary band or a count of seats either.

Cisco spends a full paragraph of this listing on recruitment fraud. It is worth reading in the company's own words. Cisco says real contact about a job will only follow an application you submitted on its own career site. It will start with a screening or an interview. It will come from a Cisco email address, over email, phone or WebEx.

Cisco also says it will never make a job offer without an interview. It says it will never ask you for money. If a request reaches you from a site other than careers.cisco.com or cisco.wd5.myworkday.com, Cisco says to hand over nothing. That covers your Aadhaar or any other identifying number, your birth certificate, banking details, driving licence and passport. Cisco asks you to consider reporting a recruiting scam to your local police.

If the years do not fit yet, the same skills show up on other listings we track. See the Qualcomm software test engineer opening in Hyderabad or the NVIDIA site reliability role in Bengaluru.

The Cisco embedded software engineer listing names Computer Science, EE and ECE, and it adds related fields. So the degree routes are wide: browse engineering graduate jobs, BCA and BSc openings, MCA and MSc roles and other degree listings. Full details for the Cisco embedded software engineer job are on the official Cisco careers listing.