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Senior Engineer I, Smart Switch Software Development

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Senior Engineer I, Smart Switch Software Development

Department: Enterprise Engineering — Smart Switch Software Development Employment Type: Full-time

About NETGEAR

NETGEAR has been pioneering advanced networking technology since 1996, delivering innovative products that connect people to the internet, power businesses, and enable digital experiences. Our Smart Switch product line serves small-to-medium businesses and enterprises worldwide, offering advanced L2/L3 managed switching with cloud-based management through NETGEAR Insight. We are building a new engineering center in Chennai to drive the next generation of our smart switch firmware platform.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Engineer I to join our Smart Switch firmware team in Chennai. You will be a technical anchor for the team — designing, developing, and maintaining embedded Linux firmware for NETGEAR's smart switch product families spanning 20+ SKUs across multiple hardware platforms.

This role sits at the intersection of hardware and software: you will work with switch ASIC SDKs, implement and optimize L2/L3 networking protocols, develop kernel modules, and ensure production-quality firmware for ARM64/MIPS-based networking devices. You will collaborate daily with the various engineering teams and have significant ownership over critical platform subsystems.

As the industry shifts toward agentic engineering — where engineers orchestrate AI coding agents to handle implementation while focusing their own expertise on architecture, system design, and validation — we expect this role to embrace AI-augmented workflows as a core part of daily development.

This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on solving deep technical problems in embedded networking systems and leverages AI tools to amplify their productivity.

What You Will Do

- Platform & Architecture: Own and evolve the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) that bridges the switch ASIC SDK with application-layer software. Design and implement kernel modules for platform services including board support, network drivers, and hardware initialization.

- Protocol Development: Implement, debug, and optimize L2/L3 protocol state machines (STP, IGMP snooping, LLDP, LACP, 802.1X, GVRP, DAI) as kernel modules, ensuring conformance with IEEE and IETF standards.

- Stacking & Distributed Systems: Contribute to the multi-unit stacking feature set — topology management, member election, cross-unit configuration synchronization, firmware upgrade coordination, and hot-swap support.

- Cross-Platform Delivery: Develop and maintain firmware across multiple product families (ARM64 and MIPS architectures), coordinating changes across shared codebases to ensure consistency.

- Code Quality & Reviews: Conduct thorough code reviews, define coding standards for the team, and champion best practices in embedded C development. Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and race conditions.

- Collaboration: Work closely with the various engineering teams across time zones. Participate in architecture discussions, design reviews, and release planning. Mentor junior engineers on the Chennai team.

- Build & Release: Maintain and improve the cross-compilation build system (GNU Make, Docker). Support release engineering processes including image generation, debug builds, and OSS compliance (SBOM).

- AI-Augmented Development: Leverage AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) as part of your daily workflow — for code generation, code review, debugging assistance, and rapid prototyping. Guide the team in adopting agentic engineering practices where AI agents handle routine implementation tasks while you focus on architecture, validation, and system-level thinking.

What We Are Looking For

Required:

- B.Tech/B.E http://B.Tech/B.E. or M.Tech/M.E http://M.Tech/M.E. in Computer Science, Electronics, or a related field

- 8+ years of professional experience in embedded software development, with at least 3 years focused on networking or telecommunications

- Strong proficiency in C programming for embedded Linux systems (kernel modules, user-space daemons, shared libraries)

- Hands-on experience with L2/L3 networking protocols — at minimum two of: STP/RSTP/MSTP, IGMP snooping, LLDP, LACP, 802.1X, VLANs

- Experience developing or maintaining Linux kernel modules (character devices, netfilter hooks, or network drivers)

- Familiarity with ARM64 or MIPS cross-compilation toolchains and embedded Linux build systems (Buildroot, OpenWrt, Yocto, or custom Makefile-based)

- Strong debugging skills — GDB, strace, kernel oops/panic analysis, packet capture with tcpdump or Wireshark

- Demonstrated daily use of AI coding agents or AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cline) to accelerate development, debugging, and code review workflows

Preferred:

- Direct experience with switch ASIC SDKs (Realtek, Broadcom, Marvell, or similar)

- Experience with switch stacking or chassis-based distributed systems

- Familiarity with network management protocols: SNMP (MIB development), CLI frameworks (Cisco IOS-style), REST APIs for device management

- Contribution to or integration of open-source networking packages

- Experience with Docker-based build environments and CI/CD pipelines for firmware

- Familiarity with Git workflows in multi-repository, multi-product environments

- Experience with agentic engineering workflows — orchestrating AI agents to handle subtasks such as code generation, test writing, and refactoring while maintaining human oversight on architecture and quality

Company Statement/Values:

At NETGEAR, we are on a mission to unleash the full potential of connectivity with intelligent solutions that delight and protect. We turn ideas into innovative networking products that connect people, power businesses, and advance the way we live.

We're a performance-driven, talented and connected team that's committed to delivering world-class products for our customers. As a company, we value our employees as the most essential building blocks of our success. And as teammates, we commit to taking our work to the Next Gear by living our values: we Dare to Transform the future, Connect and Delight our customers, Communicate Courageously with each other and collaborate to Win It Together. You’ll find our values woven through our processes, present in our decisions, and celebrated throughout our culture.

We strive to attract top talent and create a great workplace where people feel engaged, inspired, challenged, proud and respected. If you are creative, forward-thinking, passionate about technology and are looking for a rewarding career to make an impact, then you've got what it takes to succeed at NETGEAR. Join our network and help us shape the future of connectivity.

NETGEAR hires based on merit. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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