Software Engineer
Milpitas, CA, United States • Posted June 03, 2026
Job Type:
Full-time
Location:
Milpitas, CA
Posted:
June 03, 2026
Category:
other-general
Application Deadline:
June 07, 2026
Role Description
The application window is expected to close on: 06/29/2026
**Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received** .
**This is a Hybrid role with 3 day/ week in Milpitas, CA office.**
**Meet the Team**
The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of building next-generation networking systems that power the largest and most demanding infrastructures in the world. As the industry evolves to support AI/ML workloads and ever-increasing bandwidth demands, innovations such as Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) are becoming critical to scaling performance, efficiency, and power optimization.
The SONiC Optics team is passionate about enabling and productizing optics solutions—including CPO—within Cisco’s network operating systems. We work at the intersection of hardware, optics, and software, integrating innovative optical technologies into SONiC-based platforms.
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**Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received** .
**This is a Hybrid role with 3 day/ week in Milpitas, CA office.**
**Meet the Team**
The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of building next-generation networking systems that power the largest and most demanding infrastructures in the world. As the industry evolves to support AI/ML workloads and ever-increasing bandwidth demands, innovations such as Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) are becoming critical to scaling performance, efficiency, and power optimization.
The SONiC Optics team is passionate about enabling and productizing optics solutions—including CPO—within Cisco’s network operating systems. We work at the intersection of hardware, optics, and software, integrating innovative optical technologies into SONiC-based platforms.
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