Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Cisco Datacenter switching group - Software QA Engineer - Layer 2 Testing - 5 positions

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Job Title: Software QA Engineer - Layer 2 Testing (Next Gen Data center Switch)

Job Description:

Participate (in an automation engineer role) on a new project team of engineers involved in testing of Next Generation Data Center switch:

Key areas include:
- Participate and work closely with developers at various stages fspec, design reviews to develop testplans,tools,utilities.
- Write detail feature testplans, Design Test bed design, test topologies.
- Develop Tcl/Expect scripts for automated testing.
· Investigate script failures in automated testbeds; modify scripts/libraries and log product defects as needed.
· Assist development engineers in product defect diagnosis.
· Develop and maintain Tcl/Expect libraries used to control switches, routers, and traffic generators.
· Assist other devtest engineers in script development efforts by performing code reviews and assisting in debugging efforts.
· Initiate and participate in efforts to improve group productivity and test effectiveness.
· Provide feedback and contribute in test plan development, resource allocation planning, and test process definition/improvement.

Skills required:
Preferred :Strong Platform, infrastructure test experience with good understanding for the data path of routers/switches. Cat6k experience would be an added advantage. In addition to this good exposure to layer2 and layer 3 protocols is required and experience with using test tools from IXIA, spirent, Agilent is required.

Automation will span white box, feature tests, general utilities,Protocol conformance, latency,performance, stress, scale tools and end to end system testing.


Platform: packet flow debugging experience with multi layer switches, troubleshooting platform features like powersupply/Fan/LC bringup/Temperature Sensor, HA, SMP (symmetric Multi processing), Kernel debugging, IPC, Threads, GDB, Sockets

Layer 3: OSPF, BGP, ISIS, MPLS, QOS, Traffic engineering, Policy Based routing, PIM,Gateway routing protocol, VRRP, DVMRP.

Layer 2: Spanning Tree, Vlans, Vlan truncking, 802.1X, ethernet,Transport: Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP, Sockets
Languages: TCL, iTCL, Perl, C , C++

Traffic tools: IXIA, Spirent, Smartbits, Agilent Router Tester, QA Robot, Cisco PagentTest Harness: Cisco ATS, ATS Easy, eARMS
Interop: Exposure to Juniper, Foundry, Nortel, Cisco 7200, 7600,Catalyst 6500, GSR, HFR routers.

· Hands-on experience testing Cisco switches or routers using autotest , ATS EASY, is a plus· Excellent communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with different test, development, and support groups.
· Must be able to handle multiple tasks at once and work independently with minimal managerial oversight.
· Typically requires MSEE/CS combined with 4-5 years of related experience or BSEE/CS combined with 6-8+ years experience
Skills:
Layer 2: Spanning Tree, Vlans, Vlan truncking, 802.1X, ethernet,Transport: Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP, Sockets
Languages: TCL, iTCL, Perl, C , C++

Cisco Unified Computing Group - Senior Product Marketing Manager - Outbound OS & Virtualization Partner Support

Email your resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Cisco's Unified Computing Group is actively looking to hire a Senior Product Marketing Manager - Outbound supporting our OS & Virtualization Partners.

A majority of this individual’s time will be spent on Microsoft (~60%). The remaining 40% would be spread across VMware, Red Hat, Novell, and Citrix.

Opportunity Snapshot
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in the Product Marketing team within Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Team. Become a key part of Cisco’s Data Center strategy. Cisco is looking for a dynamic, success driven and entrepreneurial product marketing manager to play a key role in driving marketing strategy and execution between Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) and Microsoft.


We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment. You will be part of a dedicated team, open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns224/index.html

Key responsibilities:
The Senior Product Marketing Manager will work closely with Microsoft to drive joint solutions and marketing programs. Primary activities include collateral development, demand generation programs, go-to-market planning and coordination across Cisco organizations. This individual will work closely with Product Management, Technical Marketing, Central Marketing, Corporate Communications and Field Marketing to support joint go-to-market engagement and planning. You will make final decisions to ensure effective achievement of UCS objectives. The Senior Product Marketing Manager for partner ecosystems insures positive working relationship with and coordination between development efforts of the business unit, marketing planning efforts of the Central Marketing Organization, and field and channel enablement. Represents Cisco and Cisco products to internal/external organizations, customers and press, etc. Determines and drives short and mid-term strategic objectives.

Skills:
Job Requirements:

Ideally we are looking for product marketing experience in Microsoft Applications or OS or Virtualization ( Microsoft , Redhat or VMware )
1) Ten plus years of experience in product marketing management with a technical background in server technologies, data center infrastructures and applications and a good understanding of the
industry is a must. Any of the following areas will be considered:(networks, storage systems and storage networking; server operating systems; virtualization technologies for network, storage and server; management)

Friday, December 11, 2009

Senior Hardware Board design engineer - High speed Switch or router hardware

Job Title: Senior Hardware Board Design Engineer
Location: San Jose, CA

Hardware System design experience in a networking company is a must (Schematics caputre Orcad, Bring-up, board design)

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Opportunity Snapshot
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in the hardware engineering team of SAVBU - Cisco's latest acquisition in the Data Center space. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment. You will be part of a dedicated team, open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team. Thus, you set your own limits for learning and achievements.
We are looking for a motivated Hardware Engineer to contribute to the development of our next generation product.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/index.html

Job Requirements:
1) X86 multi-core processor system design and PCB layout.
2) 10G SFI and XFI system design and PCB layout.
3) PCIe Gen1 and Gen2 protocol and physical layer.
4) 8G FCOe protocol and physical layer.
5) DDR3 memory system design and PCB layout.
Hands on board design experience familiar with design tools including Cadence Concept, and Allegro
Familiar with high speed design signal integrity issues, power distribution techniques and modern processors
Knowledge of multi Gigabit serial busses like PCI-E, DDR2, DDR3, hyper transport.
Experience with lab bring up and design validation on products
Ability to interface with other disciplines, including software, mechanical and signal integrity
Demonstrated experience with shipping products
Excellent verbal and written communications skills
Job will require design, and lab work
Minimum of 3+ years of experience with BSEE, or MSEE
Skills:
Hardware board design experience
Networking productline - hardware
Board design, Orcad Schematics capture
Board bring up
High speed switch or router design

Cisco Unified Computing System job - Technical Lead - MP Server EFI OS / BIOS development (Intel Nehalem)

Title: Technical Lead - MP Server EFI OS / BIOS software engineer
Location: San Jose, CA

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

We have a very urgent need for techical lead/senior software engineer to engage in the area of the energey management/thermal management, EFI/OS development and various other complex EFI/OS issues

Organization:
(SAVBU) Server Access Virtualization Business Unit seeks an experience Senior Software Engineer to define, design and build products for the next generation of data center server access and virtualization.

Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn and gain experience in a broad range of systems hardware, including multi-core CPUs, operating systems like Linux and other kernels, all of which are at the forefront of design and industry in terms of technical relevance. The job involves working on a cutting edge next generation data center server product. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced startup like environment.

Responsibilities:.
The ideal candidate demonstrates a system-level focus while understanding the impact of every component. Broad knowledge of and experience on x86 server hardware and pre-OS booting software. Design & develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.

Required Skills:
•Seven plus years of experience in BIOS/EFI/UEFI SW development.
. In depth experience in EFI OS development, Issue fixing in EFI (Intel Nehalem Platform)
. QPI Experience
. Intel Energy Management / Thermal Management
•Ten plus years of experience in C programming skills.
•Five plus years of in depth experience with x86 server systems.
•Hands on experience on x86 server systems bring up are desired.
•Strong problem solving and software development/troubleshooting debugging skills.
•Experience using of ITP debugger a plus.
• Candidate must possess excellent communication, analytical and problem solving skills.
•BSEE/CS is required a MSEE/CS is preferred

Cisco UCS Manager job - Technical Lead - System Software Development (System Management - HP Virtual Connect, Alcatel-lucent SAM or Bladelogic)

Job Title: Technical Lead - System Software development - Virtualization, system management
Location: San Jose, CA

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Cisco seeks a Software Engineer to define, design and build software for recently launched Cisco UCS Series Blade Servers. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/index.html
Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn a wide range of technologies including Virtualization, system management software development of storage, networking, and cutting edge storage technologies.
In addition, you will have the opportunity to participate in cross-functional teamwork and expose to all facets of the software development cycle from innovation, marketing requirement to product delivery.

Responsibilities:
This candidate will be responsible for delivering system level functionality of a large, enterprise class resource management system.


Required Skills:
•Five plus years of Management systems experience (Network Management, Systems Management, Datacenter Automation)
•Five plus years of system software experience, in a linux platform enviorment.
•Five plus years of C/C++ coding.
•Five plus years of experience with object oriented systems.
•Experience with meta-model-driven systems
•Experience with model-driven architectures
•Familiarity with XML (and adjacent technologies like XPath, XQuery, XSLT, SOAP)
•BSCS/CE is required MSCS/CE is preferred.
Skills:
Virtualization
Systems Management
Network Management
Storage or Security Management software
Alcatel SAM or HP Virtual Connect or HP Opsware or Veritas or Sun Systems Management software experence or IBM System Management experience

Cisco Unified Computing System job - Tech Lead - Windows Driver - I/O Virtualization

Job Title: Technical Lead - I/O Virtualization - Windows (Networking Drivers)

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Location: San Jose, CA or Texas

Cisco seeks a Software Engineer to define, design and build software for with industry-leading services and performance, for a new and exciting datacenter product line.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/index.htmlhtml

Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn a wide range of technologies including high performance system software that specializes in optimized software for IO. In addition, you will have the opportunity to participate in cross-functional teamwork and exposure to all facets of the software development cycle from innovation, marketing requirement to product delivery.

Responsibilities:
This candidate will be responsible for being conversant with the tools, paradigms and API’s needed for developing high performance system software for Windows platforms. Influence the design of interfaces between products to ensure interoperability. Develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.

The group is working on a highly differentiated IO device which is an integral part of the Cisco server offerings. The device provides best in class performance along with unmatched virtualization capabilities. The initial requirements are:

Required Skills:
1.Minimum 3 plus years experience developing system software for various Windows platforms
2.Experience with HP Virtual Connect or Dell Flexaddress a plus.
3. Familiar with Windows driver model, low level C, C++ and assembly programming
3.General operating systems software expertise
4.Experience with hardware platforms (x86) is a strong requirement
5.Familiarity with Storport drivers is a bonus
6.Familiarity with NDIS 5.0, 6.0, 6.2 desired
7.Use of debuggers, ICE, VTune etc is desired.
8.Familiarity with Ethernet networking and Fibre channel is a bonus.
9.BSCS/BSCE degree is required; MS CS/CE is preferred
Skills:
Low level driver development on HP Virtual Connect
Windows Driver development NDIS Storport
Windows Kernel
Networking device driver
I/O Virtualization

Cisco Nexus Datacenter Switch job - Software Engineer - QoS development

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Job Title: Software Engineer - Layer 2 QoS development
Location: San Jose, CA

Organization:
This is an excellent opportunity to join SAVBU - Cisco Unified computing Product group. The job involves working on a cutting edge data center switch. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment.

Required Skills:
•3-10 plus years of experience in C programming skills.
•Three plus years of experience in design and development in networking applications.
•Hands on experience on Layer 2 Switch QoS development
•Minimum Three - five years of related work experience is required.
•BSEE/CS is required a MSEE/CS is preferred.

Cisco Nexus Datacenter job - Senior Platform Software Engineer - Kernel / OS / U-Boot / Driver

Email resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Job Title: Switch Platform Software Engineer
Location: San Jose, CA

Organization:
This is an excellent opportunity to join SAVBU - Cisco Unified computing Product group. The job involves working on a cutting edge data center switch. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment.

Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in new Layer 3 project as part of the software engineering team of SAVBU. Become a key part of Cisco’s Data Center strategy. Cisco is looking for a dynamic, success driven and entrepreneurial product manager to play a key role in driving marketing strategy and execution with the Unified Computing System (UCS) partner ecosystem.
We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment. You will be part of a dedicated team, open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns224/index.html

Responsibilities:
Participate on a project team of engineers involved in the development of software for our next generation data center switch product family, with emphasis in platform development ine, architect, design, and deliver new software and features for the UCS product line. You will be exposed to great design methodologies using finite state machines and various in-house tools/libraries. Work also involves providing constant feedback to hardware and software teams for improvements. Write complete functional and design specs independently. Write portions of product spec. Lead development of subsystems. Design & Develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.

Required Skills:
•3-10 plus years of experience in C programming skills.
•3-10 plus years of in-depth experience designing networking systems with knowledge of any of the following: Platform/uboot/kernel/board bring up/drivers.
•Three plus years of experience in design and development in networking applications.
•Hands on experience on Device Drivers and with three to ten years of overall software platform expertise.
In depth experience and expertise with ASIC hardware bringup/MAC/PHY programming
•Strong problem solving and software development/troubleshooting skills.
•Minimum five years of related work experience is required.
•BSEE/CS is required a MSEE/CS is preferred.

Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch - Senior Software Engineer - Switch Infrastructure

Email your resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Layer 2 Switch Infrastructure (Interface Manager, Routing Table Manager)
Location: San Jose, CA

Cisco seeks a Software Engineer to define, design and build a flexible, scalable framework for your new data center network with Cisco Nexus Switches

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns224/index.html

Required Skills:
•Three plus years of experience with embedded Software experience.
-Three to ten years of overall software experience
- Experience in Switch Infrastructure development ( Interface Manager, Routing Table Manager )
•In depth Layer 2 protocol experience in Ethernet switching (any of the following protocols; VLAN, LACP,STP, IGMP, Multicast)
•Strong C programming skills.
•BSCS/CE is required MSCS/CE is preferred.

Desired Skills:
Experience with any of the following areas is a plus:
•RTOS embedded experience ( VxWorks, PSOS, Linux OS)
•Hands on experience on switch/router embedded system software development.
•Strong problem solving and software development/troubleshooting skills.
•Experience w/ IP routing (any routing protocols)

Cisco Nexus 5000 switch - Senior Software Engineer - Layer 2 Forwarding Software

Email your resumes to mohamali@cisco.com

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Layer 2 or Layer 3 Forwarding software
Location: San Jose, CA

Cisco seeks a Software Engineer to define, design and build a flexible, scalable framework for your new data center network with Cisco Nexus Switches

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns224/index.html

Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn a wide range of the core Layer 2 technologies. This is an excellent opportunity to join Cisco’s latest acquisition in the Data Center space. The job involves working on a cutting edge storage product. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start like environment.
The work involves design and development in customized networking environment for some key system software.
You will be part of a fast paced team responsible for delivering quality code for large complex systems requirements. Open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team with "pay for performance" culture. Thus, you set your own limits for learning, achievements and rewards.

Responsibilities:
Participate on a project team of engineers involved in the development of software for our next generation data center switch product family, with emphasis in the layer 2 protocols area. Define, architect, design, and deliver new software protocols and features for the Nexus platform. Work also involves providing constant feedback to hardware and software teams for improvements. Write complete functional and design specs independently. Write portions of product spec. Design & Develop large portions of software independently and rapidly.

Required Skills:
•Three plus years of experience with embedded Software experience.
-Three to ten years of overall software experience
- Forwarding Software Development
•In depth Layer 2 protocol experience in Ethernet switching (any of the following protocols; VLAN, LACP,STP, IGMP, Multicast)
•Strong C programming skills.
•BSCS/CE is required MSCS/CE is preferred.

Desired Skills:
Experience with any of the following areas is a plus:
•RTOS embedded experience ( VxWorks, PSOS, Linux OS)
•Hands on experience on switch/router embedded system software development.
•Strong problem solving and software development/troubleshooting skills.
•Experience w/ IP routing (any routing protocols)

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Cisco Cloud Computing Jobs - Technical Lead - Cloud Computing, Compute Virtualization

Want to be a part of Cisco's Cloud Computing initiative, we are looking for candidates in the near future.

Email your resumes to mohamali@cisco.com


Job Title: Technical Lead- Cloud Computing
Location: San Jose, CA

Organization:
Cisco seeks a Technical Lead to help define architecture and system design for cloud computing enablement.

Opportunity Snapshot:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to apply a wide range of technologies, with the ultimate goal of designing and validating Cisco reference architectures to enable cloud computing use cases.

You will participate in, and sometimes lead, a variety of cross-functional teams which develop the architecture for network-enabled clouds. You will also be directly involved in designing, building, and running proof-of-concept clouds to help validate the architecture, Cisco differentiations, and product roadmap recommendations.

Responsibilities:
In this role, you will be responsible for actively participating and developing Cisco cloud architecture as part of a virtual, cross-functional team. You may also lead one or more subcomponents of the architecture.

You will also be responsible for developing and implementing concepts that result in Cisco-enabled cloud differentiations. This effort will involve building out a variety of cloud infrastructures leveraging a combination of: Cisco components, open source, and partner stack elements.

Required Skills:
1. Eight plus years of in depth experience in system design that includes networking, compute, and storage elements
2. Eight plus years of experience in multiple forms of virtualization (including compute virtualization)
3. Five plus years of experience in IT system management (e.g. ITIL) strongly preferred
4. Five plus years of strong software engineering skills and experience (C, C++, Java, scripting languages, API design and implementation)
5. Knowledge of model-driven, distributed systems
6. Able to lead system and software engineering teams
7. Strong written and verbal communication skills
8. Demonstrated success in working collaboratively in virtual or cross functional teams
9. Demonstrated “hands on” experience in concept and prototype development
10. BS/EE or CS and or MS/EE or CS degree with eight plus years of related experience

Friday, August 28, 2009

Cisco to showcase Datacenter Virtualization customer deployment - Watch it!!!

Datacenter Virtualization customer deployments showcased this Tuesday, Sep 1st 2009.

If anyone is following this thread please leave your comments on what you thought of the presentation. Let's make this more interactive. And if you are interested to work for this group email me at mohamali@cisco.com

When: Tue, Sep 1, 09
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m. PDT

Click on the link to watch : http://tinyurl.com/l69rgs


Topics:

Soni Jiandani, vice president of the Cisco Server Access and Virtualization Group, will give an update on customer reception and market traction with the Unified Computing System and the Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch. Ms. Jiandani will discuss the variety of virtualization strategies being planned and deployed by enterprise IT organizations today, and explain how Cisco is supporting them.

James McGibney and Jason Morgan will discuss their company's data center consolidation efforts, virtualization strategy, experiences with UCS and Nexus to date, business benefits, environmental sustainability benefits, and ROI. Tutor Perini Corporation is a leading U.S.-based civil and building construction company offering diversified general contracting and design/build services to private clients and public agencies around the world.

Presidio Networked Solutions' CEO Joel Schleicher and CTO Dave Hart will explain how they are helping clients virtualize their data centers and optimize their existing resources. Mr. Hart will provide a first-hand account of customer challenges and goals and will share Presidio's experience in designing solutions that include Cisco Unified Computing System and Nexus technology. Presidio Networked Solutions is a leading provider of advanced IT infrastructure and managed outsourcing solutions, and is a Cisco UCS Advanced Technology Partner.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Cisco Telepresence showcased in GI Joe Movie - Pretty cool Holographic effect

I don't know if anyone noticed in the new GI Joe movie, but being a Cisco employee, I noticed the technology that was incorporated in Joe's Headquarters. I was completely amazed by the holographic video conferencing technology (Cisco Telepresence) inside Joe's headquarters AKA "The Pit". A must see for all Cisco Employee's.

Cisco Telepresence is looking for Video Hardware Engineers, Microphone / Acoustics engineers, Video encoding / decoding / Transcoding, DSP aglorithm engineers, Video Streaming and Firmware engineers, Camera design engineers, Mechanical Engineers.

If anyone is interested in working for this cool technology, contact me at mohamali@cisco.com

Monday, August 10, 2009

Manager - Blackberry Mobile software development - Cisco / Flip Video job

Cisco is actively looking for a a Manager or Technical Lead with experience in Blackberry application software development and management experience.

Email your responses to mohamali@cisco.com

Manager , Mobile software development Lead

JOB DESCRIPTION
We have an opportunity for a passionate and talented manager with mobile software background to join our growing development family in downtown San Francisco. You will work with us to create high quality, cutting-edge software products enabling our customers to have the best possible experience viewing and sharing video on mobile devices. You will be known as a“mobile applications guru” that will drive the design and implementation of Flipshare on mobile devices like iPhone, Blackberry, Android, and Windows Mobile phones. You will be responsible for the technical direction of a team of engineers delivering exciting mobile applications. This is a full-time, on-site position. On top of the opportunity to work on amazingly cool, cutting edge, consumer electronics software, we’re even fun to work with.

Appropriate candidates will have the following skills, qualifications and experience:

• Masters Degree in Science, Electrical, Software or Computer Engineering required
• 7 or more years of work experience in software engineering
• 5 or more years of experience designing software and software architectures in a leadership capacity
• 3 or more years of consumer software development on Blackberry, Android, iPhone or other mobile devices
• Demonstrated success leading, directing, and coordinating the technical activities of both full-time and consulting engineers in developing software
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

An ideal candidate would also have one or more of the following:

• Experience with multiple mobile platforms
• Experience with multimedia development
• Program management skills
• Experience developing client/server/web interactions

Based in San Francisco, the revolutionary Flip Video family of camcorders ignited a new category of video cameras that puts the power to shoot and share video into the pockets of everyday consumers. Flip Video camcorders are the world's first with on-board software to enable editing, organizing, and seamless video uploading to YouTube, MySpace, AOL Video and other video sharing sites.

As part of its Flip Video Spotlight Program, the company pledged to deliver 1 million camcorders to help non-profits use the power of video to change the world. Flip Video camcorders are available in over 10,000 retail locations including Amazon, Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart, Sam's Club, Sears, Kmart, and TheFlip.com.

Friday, August 7, 2009

QT Software Engineer - Trolltech Framework ( Cisco / Flip Video )

Cisco / Flip Video is aggressively diving into connected home and consumer video market.

We are actively looking for a Senior QT software Engineer on Windows or MAC Platform. QT is the framework from Trolltech which was acquired by Nokia.

Location: San Francisco, CA or San Jose, CA

Email your responses to mohamali@cisco.com

Required Skills:

* QT Framework application development - the product has to be an application developed and is used by consumers or by a large number of people.
* Strong C++ is required, Object Oriented programming skills
* Ideal person will be Windows / Mac platform experience
* Directshow is a plus not mandatory

* Experience with multimedia applications
• Experience coupling Qt with native functionality on both Mac and Windows
• Experience setting up build systems for Qt based applications on Mac and Windows

Check out Flip Video or Flipshare.com for more information

Friday, July 24, 2009

Cisco Flip Video job - Web Product Manager for Flipshare.com

Web Product Manager for Flipshare.com
San Francisco, CA

Description
Pure Digital Technologies, makers of the Flip Video line of easy-to-use video camcorders (http://www.theflip.com), is seeking an experienced Product Manager to play a vital role in the development of new web-based products and services. The central focus for this role is to provide cross-functional product direction for FlipShare.com, our new web-based sharing service. This contracting position will be based in our San Francisco office.

The ideal candidate is an independent, self-motivated, creative professional, capable of adapting quickly to a fast-paced environment and has significant product management experience in online and/or software applications, excellent communication skills, a strong intuitive sense of mass-market customer needs and a passion for video and social networking.

Key Responsibilities
- Define product plans based on high-level product strategy, roadmap, and business requirements
- Synthesize cross-functional input to identify tradeoffs and make recommendations, balancing capabilities, constraints, and priorities
- Define detailed product requirements to guide development teams in feature design, implementation and delivery, across the product lifecycle
- Work closely with development teams to detail features and design capabilities around an iterative functional release schedule
- Provide feature clarification throughout the development cycle, refining features as necessary
- Review milestone releases against product definition, resolving issues affecting expectations and providing direction on definition uncertainties

Experience
A strong candidate for this role will match many of these criteria:
- 5+ years successful, large-scale product management experience of consumer-targeted, technical products
- 5+ years experience working closely with interdepartmental teams, including engineering, product marketing, operations, customer service and business development
- Excellence in the creation of product requirement documents, detailing comprehensive product and feature definitions
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the capability to extract the core essence out of complex scenarios, and the talent to motivate teams
- Experience with internationalization and localization is a plus

About the Company
Pure Digital Technologies, recently acquired by Cisco Systems, is a pioneer in developing simple, affordable digital imaging solutions for the mass market. The revolutionary Flip Video line ignited a new category of video cameras that puts the power to shoot, edit and share video into the pockets of everyday consumers. We are a dynamic, growing company with offices in downtown San Francisco.

We’re facing the challenges involved in developing a simple, intuitive, yet high quality product, and, in addition to hardware challenges, are focused on the software applications and online services that complete the Flip Video experience. Our vision is to make capturing, editing, sharing and socializing video both easy and fun.

Beyond the opportunity to work on a cool consumer electronics product, we offer competitive salaries, great benefits, and we’re even fun to work with.

Contact Information:
Email your resume to mohamali@cisco.com

Monday, July 20, 2009

Flip Video job opportunity - Sr. Audio Processing - Algorithm Engineer with Image processing experience (Firmware)

Cisco acquired Flip Video (the revolutionary flip video camera) and we are expanding.

We are actively looking for a Audio processing expert with experience in Image processing algorithms. Email your resumes to mohamali@cisco.com for immediate response.

Location: San Jose, CA (Relocation not provided)

Responsibilities:
• Developing firmware code in embedded C for digital video cameras.
• Lead development and quality of audio in “Flip” cameras.
• Must be able to capture and analyze audio and video for correctness in video processing and debugging.
• Ability to develop new algorithms for audio and video processing in an embedded environment.
• Needs to be able to work alone and collaborate well a group/team environment.
• Needs to have a familiarity with the form and function of modern imaging sensors.
• Must have some experience and knowledge of both Analog and Digital Electronics.
• Experience with miniature microphones and miniature speakers and acoustics.
• Familiar with audio filtering in both the analog domain and digital domain.
• Passionate about audio, getting it right and making it clean.

Experience:

Minimum 7 years of writing code and algorithms in Imaging and Video Processing and Audio Electronics/Acoustics or related fields that require expert knowledge in these areas:

Need to be knowledgeable in various color correction, filtering, and image/video enhancement techniques.

Needs familiarity with, and have proficiency, using imaging and video editing and analysis tools.

The candidate needs to have knowledge and experience with selecting, placing, and tuning (filtering) audio components in consumer devices.

Environment:
• Embedded, 32 bit MIPS, ThreadX OS.
• Languages: C, C++, (MIPS Assembly maybe.)

Areas:
Image and Video Processing and Enhancement, Algorithm Development, AE, AWB, Color Correction, Embedded Programming, MIPS, Image/Video Compression, MPEG, H.264, AAC, ADPCM. Audio Engineering, Microphones, Speakers, Acoustics.
Desired Skills and Experience:
• Expert knowledge in C coding and design skills.
• Excellent code organization skills.
• Ability to easily dive into existing code, learn from it, fix it, and/or improve upon the implementation.
• Good understanding of programming in real time and multi threaded systems.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Excellent high level mathematical skills (i.e. Calculus and linear algebra or related).
• Extensive familiarity with necessary audio tools, equipment and software for audio analysis and testing.

Pluses:
• Digital Audio filter for calibration, clean up and/or enhancement.
• Knowledge of sensors for purpose of quick evaluation.
• Knowledge of optics and lens fabrication for both glass and plastic can be important.
• Proficiency using Matlab, Visual Studio 2003 or later.
• Knowledge of Directshow filters, how write them and use them.
• Knowledge of video compression / decompression standards and techniques.
• Proficiency in most Microsoft Office products: Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook.

Education:
BS, MS in any of the following fields: Computer Science, Physics, Image Processing, Video Processing, or Electrical Engineering.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Cisco and Unitedhealth to push for Telemedicine

Cisco and Unitedhealth insurance push for Telemedicine. In what is termed as connected care, Cisco will place video terminals in office building, malls, shopping complex and in remote locations which connects patients to the doctor through video.

The effort comes as President Obama and congressional Democrats promote technology as part of a sweeping effort to make health care more efficient and affordable.

Cisco all the way!!!

Read more regarding this topic at Yahoo Finance

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Datacenter Virtualization Cisco Jobs - Senior Benchmarking Architect - x86 servers

Description:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in the Technical Marketing team of Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit (SAVBU) at Cisco. We are looking for a technical, dynamic, success driven and entrepreneurial TME to play a leadership role on Server performance analysis and benchmarking activities. We are looking for candidates with strong server architecture, application and Virtualization background. You will be part of a dedicated team. Open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team.

Job responsibilities:
Senior technical marketing engineer responsible for Performance analysis, benchmarking and solutions development in the Enterprise space.

Expertise in server performance analysis, benchmarking of Enterprise applications such as Database, Application Servers, Virtualization.

Expertise in industry standard benchmarks such as TPC, SPEC etc including hands on publication experience.

Strong understanding of x86 based Server platform architecture with hands on Performance analysis and tuning experience.

Hands-on experience on Datacenter Solution, develop technical and marketing content involving Server platform, access layer, virtualization and applications.
Proven ability in taking used case scenarios and architecting compelling solution studies for our platform with differentiation where applicable.
Creating and updating marketing collateral, including data sheets, presentations, whitepapers, ROI calculators and case studies.
Will act as the technical interface on customer sales calls, when required, and assist in preparing responses to RFP's, RFI's, and RFC's.
Participate in proof of concept, product demonstrations and presentations.
Working in the lab with client partners for product tear downs, feature comparisons, benchmarking and demonstration set up development.
Works independently without much supervision.

Skills and Requirements:
10+ years experience with server platform, blade server or rack mount server ( x86 ) in performance analysis and benchmarking.

Expertise in industry standard benchmarking for Servers.

Five plus years of Technical Marketing experience with focus on Field support
Experience engaging with Enterprise Software vendors with a strong focus on performance aspects

Ability to propose and implement solution studies based on enterprise applications.
Adept at developing solution guides, proof-of-concept studies, best practices studies.
Strong understanding of enterprise applications, database, and messaging solutions.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Capable of delivering training to field sales and support staff
Partner and customer relations management
Network and Storage knowledge is a plus
Requires B.S. or M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or other technical field.

Cisco is developing a Television based home chat

Cisco is working with phone and cable carriers on products and services that let consumers hold videoconferences through their televisions. These will be based on Cisco's TelePresence corporate-videoconferencing system, and will debut within 12 months. This will include video chats, and users also will be able to exchange messages and leave videos for friends, said Ned Hooper, head of consumer business at Cisco.

Cisco plans to use Flip Video software to expand in the market for home networking gear, camcorders and video applications, a market that Hooper says will grow 50 percent to $60 billion by 2013.

"There's a big opportunity for us," Hooper said. "You will start to see very big growth numbers on top of the base consumer business we report every quarter."

For more details read these external links:

Forbes article on Cisco's plan on bringing TV based Home Video Chat

Statesman article on Cisco home Video chat on TV

Monday, July 6, 2009

Cisco Flip Video Job opportunity - Software Program Manager / Project Manager - Consumer Electronics

Key Skills: Video application software development Management

REQUIREMENTS

Appropriate candidates will have the following skills, qualifications and experience:
• 5+ years experience in project management.
• Proven ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects.
• A proactive nature and proven leadership skills that demonstrate the ability to manage a team made up of cross-department and cross-level resources.
• Strong organization and problem solving skills that include the ability to respond to changing needs and shifting priorities.
• Experience with internationalization of consumer products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• A personality to match your intellect.
• The desire to be part of a small, talented development team.
• A passion for building top-of-the-line consumer products.

An ideal candidate would also have one or more of the following:
• Experience in both established project office and start-up environments.
• Formal project management qualifications (PMI or equivalent).
• Experience project managing the delivery of a consumer electronics product.
• Experience and knowledge of manufacturing and distribution processes.
• BS/MS degree or equivalent.
• A love of the finer things in life.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Data center Virtualization Cisco jobs - Diagnostics Software Engineer for Cisco UCS

Location: San Jose, California

Description:
This is an excellent opportunity to join Cisco’s award winning datacenter blade server / virtualization group - UCS. The job involves working on a cutting edge server product. We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start like environment.

The work involves level device driver and diagnostics code in customized networking and server environment for some key system software.

Requirements:
•Expert in server diagnostics. knowledge of X64 platform CPU, chipsets, hardware, schematics
. X64 BIOS/EFI experience, PCI-E bus, low level C and assembly programming
Hands on low level device driver and diagnostics code design knowledge, familiar with build tools: compiler/linker and bin util tool chain.
•Hands on coding experience in C, script programming (e.g. bash, tcsh, TCL/Expect, Perl).

Data center virtualization cisco jobs - Hardware Engineer - Board / System design for Cisco UCS - Multiple openings

Location: San Jose, CA

Opportunity Snapshot
This is an exciting opportunity to work in the hardware engineering team for Cisco's award winning datacenter product - Cisco UCS.

We are looking for candidates who strive in a fast paced start-up like environment. We are looking for a motivated Hardware Engineer to contribute to the development of our next generation product.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9670/index.html

Job Requirements:

Board Design experience with x86 CPU or Freescale PowerPC CPU
XAUI, Hypertransport and Board design experience with PCI express at the physical and protocol level
Hands on board design experience, familiar with design tools including Cadence Concept, and Allegro
Familiar with high speed design signal integrity issues, power distribution techniques and modern processors
Knowledge of multi Gigabit serial busses like PCI-E, DDR2, DDR3, hyper transport.

FlipVideo Flip Video Cisco jobs - Technical Product Manager - Consumer Electronics for Cisco / FlipVideo

ATTENTION: This position is in Cisco’s Consumer Business Group (CBG) as a part of PureDigital ( FlipVideo ) acquisition.

Flip Video exemplifies Cisco’s passion for video. The best-selling brand makes video simple, accessible and fun, allowing users to easily capture and edit videos and then share them instantly with friends, family and on popular video-sharing Web sites.

CBG is looking for an experienced senior product manager to play a vital role in the development of Flip Video products. The right candidate provides clear product direction of our FlipShare software and associated software products, has excellent communication skills, and expertly guides product definition across lifecycles. Internationalization experience is a plus.

Candidates from Apple, Logitech Camera Group, Zoran, Micron, Omnivision, Palm, Microsoft Danger / Web TV or any other consumer video company will be a plus.

Data center virtualization cisco jobs - Senior Technical Marketing Engineer - Server Virtualization Architect for Cisco UCS

Location: San Jose, CA

Description:
In this role, you will have the opportunity to work with Unified Computing Systems Technical Marketing team at Cisco. We are looking for a technical, dynamic, success driven and entrepreneurial TME architect to play a leadership role on strategic server virtualization datacenter product and solution. We are looking for candidates with strong Virtualization, server architecture and application background. You will be part of a dedicated team. Open communications, empowerment, innovation, teamwork and customer success are the foundations of the team.

Job responsibilities:
Responsible for the total system level solution definition and implementation involving key server virtualization concepts.
Hands-on experience of Datacenter Solution, develop technical and marketing content involving Server platform, access layer, virtualization and application.
Proven ability in taking used case scenarios and architecting compelling solution studies for our platform with differentiation where applicable.

Email your resume to mohamali@cisco.com