Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer, Cisco Meraki
MV Camera Platform
$126.5-241.7k
+ Annual bonus
Cloud-based network platform
Job no longer available
Cloud-based network platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$126.5-241.7k
+ Annual bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify technology so passionate people can focus on their mission.
Role
Who you are
- Have 10+ years professional experience programming in C or C++
- Have expert knowledge of embedded systems development concepts, including cross-platform development and build tools (GNU toolchain, OpenWRT, buildroot, Yocto), bootloaders (U-Boot, coreboot, UEFI), kernel configuration, device drivers, device trees
- Have strong experience in scoping and planning embedded system firmware tasks from engineering concept to product delivery
- Have strong systems and networking foundational knowledge (systems architecture, memory hierarchy, storage subsystems, LANs, routing)
- Know common bus protocols like I2C, SPI, and MDIO
- Have experience reading schematics and data sheets
Desirable
- Upstreaming Linux patches
- Experience with multi-threaded or parallel programming
- Are comfortable using network protocol analyzers, logic analyzers, hardware debuggers, and source-level debuggers to troubleshoot problems at all layers of the stack
- Experience writing device drivers
- Experience with image sensors, GPUs, ISPs, DSPs, h.264 and other video encoding technologies
What the job involves
- Meraki Vision (MV) is the team responsible for building our security cameras with a unique edge-storage architecture
- MV Platform Engineers take the lead in building new Meraki security cameras and are responsible our low level device firmware which is built on Linux and open-source software
- Our fast paced team members work individually and in small project teams to release several new products each year
- As part of Meraki software engineers, we breathe life into our cloud-managed networking devices, which range from switches, routers, and wireless access points and security cameras
- We use real-time telemetry from thousands of deployed networks spanning the globe to continuously improve the performance and stability of our products
- Own projects from software project scoping and timelines, block-diagram concepts, to prototype boards that don’t boot, all the way to shipping product
- Collaborate with our Hardware Engineering team on component selection and high-level architecture for new Meraki products
- Collaborate with our manufacturing partners to develop secure, reliable, and scalable manufacturing processes
- Integrate vendor board support packages and software development kits with our firmware and build system
- Develop, port, and debug Linux device drivers
- When things don’t go quite as planned—a board doesn’t boot, an LED doesn’t light, a fan doesn’t spin—use a JTAG debugger or logic analyzer or work with the hardware team to debug the problem
- Collaborate with other Platform Bring-up Engineers across product teams to continually improve our firmware design, development, and deployment practices
Our take
Cisco Meraki, formed from the acquisition of Meraki by Cisco in 2012, is an industry-leading cloud-managed IT company. Its technology provides unified management of mobile devices, Macs, PCs, and entire networks, all from a centralised dashboard.
Originally founded in 2006, Meraki's transformation to Cisco Meraki allowed it to reach more than 2 million active networks, and over 7 million devices globally, on top of gaining the strength of Cisco’s resources. The company has kept pace with the rise of hybrid workforces and multi-cloud environments with its Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering, which bridges networking and security so that workers have seamless, secure access wherever they are working from.
Operating in a growing industry, there is plenty of opportunity for Cisco Meraki to expand its operations, and to further develop its offerings. The company supports a range of clients, encompassing roughly 75% of Fortune 500 companies, and including names such as Audi, Applebee's, and Colliers International.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jul 2012
$40m
SERIES D
Feb 2011
$15m
SERIES C
Total funding: $80m
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brett Hull
(Head of Engineering (Not Founder))Previously Research Associate and Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and Software Development Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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