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Meet the Team

We are the UCS Blade Platform BMC Team, a dynamic group dedicated to driving innovation in BMC development for Cisco's X-Series Blade Servers. Our small, agile, and diverse team thrives on collaboration and rapid execution, delivering production-quality software swiftly to our multi-functional teams. Our work supports the renowned UCS X-Series portfolio, a future-ready modular system powered by Cisco Intersight, simplifying IT operations and accelerating innovation.

Your Impact

As a Software Engineer in the UCS Blade Platform BMC Team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing platform BMC software for next-generation enterprise-class PCIe nodes and fabrics. You will collaborate across hardware, software, and QA teams to deliver high-quality solutions for flexible AI applications and workloads. Your contributions will ensure compatibility, streamline processes, and influence hardware and software design.

Design and implement platform BMC software for next-generation enterprise-class PCIe nodes/fabrics as part of Cisco's Cloud and AI Infrastructure group.

Work with hardware, software, and QA teams to bring up new hardware products using PCIe/GPU switch fabrics for flexible AI applications/workloads.

Develop diagnostics, monitoring, and telemetry capabilities using prototype environments.

Collaborate with other software and hardware teams to develop security, telemetry, and remote administration functionality.

Ensure compatibility with hardware and influence platform architecture at a systems level.

Our Minimum Qualifications for this role:

Bachelor's degree with minimum 5 years of related experience along with 3+ years of experience in C or C++ programming or equivalent and 2+ years of experience in Linux embedded software development. Experience with Linux kernel device driver development, integration, testing, and debugging. Experience with communication and control busses in embedded systems, including MDIO, PCIe, or SMBus/I2C/I3C.
Our Preferred Qualifications for this role:

Experience integrating vendor BSPs/SDKs into source code for shared/common libraries and applications. Experience in scripting languages such as Python, Shell, or similar.

Proficient in reading and understanding hardware schematics with the capability to work at a systems level to architect solutions. Experience with Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) or equivalent. Experience with OpenBMC, DMTF standards, or MCTP/PLDM/SPDM.

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