IT Software Engineer
Cisco is hiring an IT Software Engineer in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Cisco.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this software engineer role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Claude, Cursor and prompt engineering.
- Level classifies it as a mid-level role.
- Level lists 1,400+ other open roles at Cisco.
AI in this role
Join our diverse and inclusive Supply Chain team and be a part of one of the top Supply Chains in the world!
You'll have the incredible opportunity to join us at worlds number one Supply Chain Fulfillment organization to play a key role in designing and developing next-generation capabilities. Your role will focus on designing and developing next-generation state-of-the-art AI capabilities to support our architectural transformation and modernization efforts.
As a valued member of our team, you'll be responsible for developing and delivering new capabilities using the latest technologies and processes. This involves actively developing code, as well as debugging and reviewing with the team. You'll also have the chance to work closely with our talented engineers and interact with our valued business partners, fostering an inclusive and respectful atmosphere.
Who you'll work with
As a member of the Cisco IT team, you will be a valuable part of the Supply Chain Fulfillment team. Our team is dedicated to delivering exceptional services, tools, platforms, and data that are essential for powering one of the top Supply Chains in the world.
At Cisco, we prioritize innovation and evolution to provide our Supply Chain team with a competitive advantage. This includes optimizing and automating business process systems, effectively utilizing cloud service providers, and developing cutting-edge in-house AI induced agentic solutions.
You'll have the opportunity to join a dynamic, empowered, and collaborative team that values diverse perspectives and inclusive practices, all focused on building, supporting, and enhancing a seamless end-to-end Orchestrator system.
We believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment are key to driving innovation and achieving success. Our team is committed to ensuring that everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to contribute their unique ideas and experiences.
Who you are
We are seeking individuals who have a strong passion for technology and possess problem-solving capabilities, coupled with excellent communication and organizational skills, and ideally, a solid academic background in software engineering disciplines.
We value diverse experiences and perspectives, and we believe they contribute to innovative problem-solving and team success.
You are a person with full of ideas, believes in looking at yourself as an innovator, penchant to dream unimaginable creative solutions, a person who thinks and spends Cisco's resources like your own, a person with bold & courageous mindset, and hungry with aggression to capture market. Someone who is persistent and says "never give up on success".
You are someone who communicates complex topics in simple terms without losing the essence of the topic, by demonstrating "Clarity of thought".
You are the person of the AI world, who applies concepts of AI everywhere starting with thinking of solutions through creation, testing, deployment & support of various applications.
What You’ll Do:
- Contributes to solution of straightforward business problems
- Analyzes information, asks questions and checks for understanding
- Establishes relationships and collaborates effectively within own team.
- Collaborates with others on projects and works on small-to-medium features from technical design through completion.
- Applies agile engineering practices
- Participates in delivery of technical design features with guidance.
- May apply understanding of how related features in a product solves one or more customer needs.
- Performs coding, debugging, testing and troubleshooting throughout the development process under supervision.
- Assists in code reviews and addresses code review feedback.
- Executes tests for scale, reliability and velocity within own code.
- Applies depth of knowledge in secure coding principles and reviews others' code for compliance.
- Monitors and triages incident reports and participates in postmortems and potential on-call duties.
- Shares knowledge from independent learning with the team.
- Estimates time to complete assignments and communicates status, blockers, and delays to the team.
- Identifies paths to eliminate blockers and meet deadlines when needed.
- Collaborates with team members to share learnings or assist in problem solving/resolution.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors + 2 years of related experience OR Masters + 0 years of related experience.
- Strong analytical skills - ability to decipher large complex problem in smaller manageable chunks to solution
- Languages: Python, Java, C++, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Oracle PL/SQL
- Automation/DevOps: Git, Jenkins, REST APIs, React JS, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Cloud/Database: AWS (Foundations/Architecting), Oracle 19c and above, Snowflake, Splunk.
Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in usage of Cursor, Git-hub co-pilot, Claude or one of the LLM driven software building techniques
- Expertise in understanding of ’Token’ and ’Tokenomics'
- Expertise in prompt engineering
- Knowledge of the workings of LLM, Cosine similarity, embeddings & weights
- Knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agentic solutions
- Knowledge of any Oracle E-Business (ERP) suite
- Knowledge of No-SQL databases, Elastic search, and Kafka
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.
Disclaimer
To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will:
- be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site
- begin with screening or an interview
- originate from a Cisco email address, and
- be conducted across email, phone, or WebEx
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How we rate this
IT Software Engineer at Cisco rates 33 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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- $167k
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