Who You'll Work With
Cisco's Wireless Business Group leads our industry in delivering powerful and innovative wireless solutions. Our solutions range from Access Points to Controllers to systems that digitize physical spaces. We are building the next generation Wi-Fi assurance and management platforms (including 3D visualization), Wi-Fi controllers, APs, Internet of Things, and Wi-Fi Solutions. Our team is known for award-winning product breakthroughs: we have won Cisco's highest Engineering award for seven consecutive years—the Cisco Pioneer Award. Our solutions are used in retail, transportation, shipping, manufacturing, education, and healthcare. Our customers include nearly every Fortune 500 company, non-profits, governments, and universities.
As a Wireless Standards/Regulatory Engineer in our team, you work with best-in-class engineers in Cisco, partners and competitors to architect and enable future generations of Wi-Fi to create hardware/software solutions, as well as pure software solutions that augment the capability of Cisco's next version of Access Points, Wireless Controllers and management/assurance platforms. You will acquire an understanding of Cisco customers’ complex problems, review and refine mechanisms to address them and then devise standardized and/or standardizable solutions for them. Be prepared to collaborate with product managers and the CTO to define business requirements and translate them to standards requirements and partner with multiple teams, within Cisco and beyond. You will develop strong relationships with allies at peer companies, make proposals, write normative standards text and lobby counterparts in order to make Wi-Fi all that it can be. You will have opportunities to define and enable the most sophisticated wireless networking systems.
Who you are
- Experienced in being a part of standards/regulatory team to deliver high quality results for industry stakeholders including Cisco and Cisco customers
- Comfortable collaborating globally with people in a variety of fields including engineering and product management.
Minimum qualifications for this role:
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Engineering with 5 plus years of experience or a Master of Science with 3 plus years of experience or a fresh PhD
- Strong knowledge of wireless systems and protocols
- Proven familiarity in standards development, preferably in the IEEE 802 family of standards and especially IEEE 802.11
- Proven familiarity in interoperability testing, preferably for the IEEE 802 family of standards and especially W-Fi Alliance
- Hands-on experience with standards/regulatory development: developing strong relationships with peers, making proposals and presentations, writing normative standards text and/or reviewing KDBs and regulatory filings, lobbying counterparts, and working effectively within a multi-player environment
- Ability to brief internal stakeholders clearly and thoroughly on upcoming standardized features
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Handle multiple tasks at once and work independently with minimal managerial mentorship
- Good understanding of networking technologies
- Knowledge of network protocols: Layer 2/Layer 3 switching/routing protocol, IP, TCP, UDP.
Desired Skills
- Familiarity with 802.11 security, roaming and AP coordination
- Familiarity with 6 GHz spectrum access including AFC requirements and protocols
- Familiarity with the QoS requirements of AR/VR traffic
- Experience in hosting and guiding meetings towards a productive outcome
- Hands-on wireless simulation experience, either (preferably) at the Medium Access Control sublayer with familiarity of PHY abstractions and upper-layer abstractions, or at the PHY level with familiarity of MAC abstractions; or both.
Familiarity with millimeter wave propagation characteristics and how it guides protocol design”)
- Self-motivated, strong sense of ownership, good team player
- Continuous learner and committed to ongoing self-improvement
We invite you to meet with us to explore the outstanding career opportunities in Cisco Wireless! To learn more about wireless breakthroughs and check out our cool products:
- Wi-Fi 6E: The Next Great Chapter: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/802-11ax-solution/index.html
- Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi Controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7nEfzpLvFQ
Why Cisco?
#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters – with people like you!
Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data travelling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and size to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.
We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognise our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).
We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.
So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco
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