Sunday, September 23, 2007

Java / J2EE and Calendaring (Time Management) / Group Scheduling Software Engineer

We have a current opening for a Java Software Engineer with experience in group scheduling software to work in the TelePresence Business Unit of our Emerging Technologies Group. This group develops the Cisco TelePresence suite of products offering a best in class conferencing solution.

Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for developing calendaring software and integrating with a variety of industry standard calendaring applications like Microsoft Exchange, IBM Notes/Domino, Active Directory/LDAP, Google Calendar, Yahoo calendar and others to develop new, best of breed video conferencing network appliance providing room scheduling, call automation and a host of real-time services as part of a team working on cutting edge technologies and products.

Requirements:

Experience developing significant portions of server-side code for large, successful, commercial products, preferably telecommunications adjunct systems.

Knowledge and experience with Object Oriented Design, Java, J2EE, Apache Tomcat, Web Services and Linux/x86 (RHE).

Expertise in calendaring and group scheduling software, understanding RFC 2445/2446 (iCalendar) standards with experience in writing middleware software that reads/writes to calendar, email, contact/resource information from Java applications.

Experience in the design and development of large-scale, highly available, global applications in a distributed computing environment (internet, intranet, extranet).

The position requires excellent written and oral communication as you will collaborate with a variety of development groups as well as marketing and other stakeholders on a regular basis.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field and 6 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Relevant industry recognized certifications like Certified Lotus Programmer or relevant MS Exchange courses are preferred, but not mandatory.

For immediate consideration, contact me directly: brstultz@cisco.com

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Sr. Hardware Engineer/ODM Development & Sourcing

We have a current opening for a Sr. Hardware Engineer/ODM Development & Sourcing to work in the TelePresence System Business Unit of our Emerging Technologies Group (ETG)

You will join the team that is building TelePresence, a virtual presence experience that uses advanced visual, audio, and interactive technologies to create an in person experience over the network.

Job Responsibilities:
Acts as a project lead in development of Audio and video products with ODM suppliers for the video conferencing market.

Defining technical specification, product design/development and test of hardware to develop products working with engineering team @ ODM suppliers to meet worldwide compliance requirements.

Consults with in-house packaging and other compliance engineers during design process to ensure compliance requirements will be met.

May negotiate EMC issues with International/European compliance agencies.

Utilizes national and international EMC test specification to conduct technical surveillance of products for global EMC compliance.

Verifies and enforces design validation test standards and processes such as Cisco's packaging, environmental, EDVT and MDVT requirements.

Requirements:

Requires 4 to 7 years experience in following areas:

Working with ODM suppliers in development of consumer products such as displays, cameras, microphone, projectors etc.. Must be technically competent in product development in this space taking product requirements from specifications , various development phases and into production.

Work closely with cross functional teams during development process. Must have project management skills.

Identify and resolve design issues promptly to meet cost and time to market goals.

Previous experience working with far-east ODM suppliers. Proficiency in Mandarin a plus.

Requires MSEE/CS combined with 5-7 years of related experience, or BSEE/CS combined with 7-10+ yrs related experience.

Please contact me if you have related experience, live in the Bay Area and want to learn more about this opportunity: brstultz@cisco.com
Hardware Engineer

We have a current opening for a Hardware Engineer to work in the TelePresence System Business Unit (TSBU) of our Emerging Technologies Group - ETG.

TelePresence is a virtual presence experience that uses advanced visual, audio, and interactive technologies to create an in person experience at a virtual conference table. TelePresence is one of the more recent examples of how Cisco is changing the way we work, live, play, and learn.

Responsibilities:

Generate and present architectural proposals, gain consensus on approval and drive adoption and implementation

Detailed system, board, and programmable logic design, implementation and debug.

Direct and design hardware test and qualification required necessary to ensure product quality and integrity.

Interface with product marketing on developing new product proposals.

Interface with software team on diagnostic creation and representation of hardware to software developers.

Develop detailed product hardware specifications.

Requirements:

Minimum 5 years of board and audio analog design experience. Skilled at acoustic design. Experience with microphone and loudspeaker design. FPGA design experience strongly desired.

Please contact me directly if you have related experience and an interest in learning more about this opportunity: brstultz@cisco.com

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Executive Communications Manager ETG

We have an opportunity for an experienced Executive Communications Manager for the Emerging Technologies Group (ETG). Emerging Technologies Group (ETG) focuses on creating solutions in new and adjacent markets built around advanced video, voice, and data communications.

Responsibilities:
Develops and executes strategic communication plans for the Emerging Technologies Group.

Flawless execution of the communication strategy across multiple media channels (PR, Web, speaker forums, influencer relations, etc.)

Provide content, positioning and/or strategy contributions to critical communications focus areas including: innovation, product positioning, internal marketing, crisis communication, etc.

Work independently and build partnerships with senior-level executives for presentation development, speech development, speech delivery, communications strategy and execution plans.

Lead in developing high quality content that achieves desired results

Create tactical communications plans

Oversee projects, and time lines and quality of project deliverables

Manage the vendor acquisition process as required


Requirements:
5 years + of experience in an Executive Communications role

Demonstrates superior executive influence skills and content development skills, with the ability to act as a role model to collaborate and team with others.

High proficiency in Power Point and other Microsoft office tools is a must.

Seen as someone who can provide positioning counsel and viewed as a content development partner.

Superior leadership skills.

Flexible and resilient.

Problem solver.

Ability to gain consensus among others.

Ability to manage sensitive situations.

Ability to grasp technical issues and market considerations.

Excellent project management skills.

Superior verbal and written communication skills.

Superior presentation skills.


Requires BA/BS in Marketing, Business, IS or equivalent plus 10+ years of related experience in Marketing or Communications organization.

If you have the related experience we need and an interest in this opportunity, please contact me directly: brstultz@cisco.com

Sr Hardware Engineer

We have a current opening for a Hardware Engineer to work in the TelePresence System Business Unit (TSBU) of our Emerging Technologies Group - ETG.

TelePresence is a virtual presence experience that uses advanced visual, audio, and interactive technologies to create an in person experience at a virtual conference table. TelePresence is one of the more recent examples of how Cisco is changing the way we work, live, play, and learn.

Responsibilities:

Generate and present architectural proposals, gain consensus on approval and drive adoption and implementation.

Detailed system, board, and programmable logic design, implementation and debug.
Direct and design hardware test and qualification required necessary to ensure product quality and integrity

Interface with product marketing on developing new product proposals.

Interface with software team on diagnostic creation and representation of hardware to software developers.

Develop detailed product hardware specifications.

Requirements:
7-10 years of experience with System level design, including system architecture including power subsystem specification and distribution design.
Experienced at debug and root cause closure of complex system level issues.

Expertise at board level design including design for EMC, ESD, signal integrity, power decoupling.

Experienced at FPGA/ASIC design and verification
Design and debug Experience with designing products for worldwide compliance requirements.

Strong communication skills, and ability to lead and direct technical activity for junior engineers.

Video and audio design experience highly desirable.

If you have the related experience we need and an interest in this opportunity please contact me directly: brstultz@cisco.com

C# / .NET Software Engineer, Highly Interactive UI's

Windows GUI Software Engineer

Participate in the specification, design, and development of innovative technologies that enable interoperability of Public Safety radio and telephone equipment. Specifically development of product features. This project provides vital tools to make disaster and emergency management more effective. This system literally helps the heroes in our communities to save lives.

IPICS - the umbrella name for the system - uses Voice over IP (VoIP) technology to allow previously incompatible communication systems to interoperate. This allows, for example, the police in one county to talk with the fire department in another even though their radio systems operate on different frequencies and using different technologies. This cooperation and interaction is vital in emergency or disaster situations and your efforts will help to build and expand this vital tool.

Primary Responsibilities:

The key responsibilities of this position are to provide the visual experience (GUI) for innovative voice and other features on Windows PC clients. Strong Windows GUI design and implementation skills - preferably using Windows Presentation Foundation. Exceptional C# and C/C++ skills are required.

Tasks include specifying, designing and refining the Graphical User Interface to enrich the user's experience, designing and implementing in such a way as to allow a customizable user experience (e.g. the skins on Media Player) - depending on fit and technical skills - additional work on back-end components such as adding features to the SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), or media (RTP) layers, or enhancing system security.

Work on the PMC will expose the candidate to a number of interdisciplinary skills including VoIP, Graphical User Interface design (using Microsoft Presentation Foundation - WPF). Advanced coding and unit testing techniques skills. An understanding on how radio and wireless systems operate is a plus, though no prior knowledge of radios, or public safety operations is required.


Requirements:

Candidate must have 3+ years of Windows GUI (WPF, MFC) coding experience. With at least one year of this effort must have included a highly interactive commercial quality application.

Strong understanding of how to make a visually and operationally functional user application.

Two plus years of hands-on experience in software design, documentation and implementation to include multi-threaded, multi-platforms/distributed applications.

The ideal candidate will also have VoIP related coding experience including understanding of media transport protocols, signaling protocols, encoding methods, voice mixing and end-to-end transport issues.

Skills Summary:
Languages: C#, C/C++
Technologies: highly interactive GUI, multithreading
Software/Tools: VC++, WPF/.Net or non-trivial MFC applications
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP, Vista (WinMobile/Pocket PC a plus)
Protocols: (Multicast, UDP, SIP, RTP, RTCP a plus)

Education:
Typically requires a BSEE/CS combined with 2-5+ years related experience.

If you have experience developing highly interactive UI's and an interest in this opportunity please contact me directly: brstultz@cisco.com

SIP Engineer

We have a current opening for a SIP Engineer to work in the TelePresence System Business Unit (TSBU) of our Emerging Technology Group ETG.

TelePresence is a virtual presence experience that uses advanced visual, audio, and interactive technologies to create an in person experience at a virtual conference table. TelePresence is one of the more recent examples of how Cisco is changing the way we work, live, play, and learn. (See the You Tube videos to the right on this recruiting blog.)

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing the SIP protocol for our TelePresence system which offers an immersive visual and audio environment for virtual meetings. You will design the call flows for communicating with Cisco's Unified Call Manager as well as other SIP proxies. You will be part of the team that designs the behavior of the system including the user interface and system control. You will work with newly developed RFC's to implement state of the art SIP implementations.

Requirements:

Detailed knowledge of the SIP protocol through implementation of the protocol
Significant contribution to architecture/design/coding for a shipping SIP-based product.
Ability to architect a protocol implementation after gaining a detailed understanding of underlying platform capabilities.
Fully conversant in SIP, RTP/RTCP, RTSP and other packet-based telecom protocols.
Experience with C/C++ in a UNIX/Linux environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and cross-team collaboration skills.
Debug complex SIP call flows with IP packet capture tools
7 years experience working in Telecom with 3 or more years working on SIP and related RFC's.

Preferred:
Experience with industry standards groups.
Experience with SIP security protocols such as TLS and
Knowledge of signaling using Cisco 5.x Call Manager

If you have the related experience and an interest in this opportunity, please contact me directly: brstultz@cisco.com

C / C++ Linux Software Engineer, Media Security

TelePresence is a virtual presence experience that uses advanced visual, audio, and interactive technologies to create an in person experience at a virtual conference table. TelePresence is one of the more recent examples of how Cisco is changing the way we work, live, play and learn. (See You Tube videos to the right on this blog.)

Responsibilities:

This position will work with a team to help implement media encryption on the video switch.

Requirements:

Strong Linux experience to include Linux 2.4 and 2.6

Superb C/C++ coding skills working in a Linux environment

Media security experience to include SRTP/SRTCP, EKT and key exchange management

Excellent problem solving skills

Effective written and verbal communication and cross-team collaboration skills


Preferred:
General knowledge of networking useful
Understanding of video transport to include knowledge of RTP/RTCP

Please contact me directly if you have related experience and an interest in this opportunity: brstultz@cisco.com

C / C++ Linux Software Engineer

We have a current opening for a C++ / Linux Software Engineer to work in the TelePresence Systems Business Unit (TSBU) of our Emerging Technologies Group (ETG).

TelePresence is a virtual presence experience that uses advanced visual, audio, and interactive technologies to create an in person experience at a virtual conference table. TelePresence is one of the more recent examples of how Cisco is changing the way we work, live, play and learn. (See the You Tube videos on the right side of this blog.)

Responsibilities:

This position will be involved in addressing video transport performance issues related to jitter and latency and porting the video switch application from Linux 2.4 to 2.6.


Requirements:

Superb C/C++ coding skills working in a Linux environment


Excellent logic and problem solving skills

Strong Linux experience to include Linux 2.4 and 2.6

In-depth understanding of video transport to include knowledge of RTP/RTCP

Effective written and verbal communication and cross-team collaboration skills


Preferred:
General knowledge of networking useful

Please contact me directly if you have an interest in this opportunity: brstultz@cisco.com