Senior Engineer I, Smart Switch Software Development

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.

What you'll do

• Stacking & Distributed Systems: Contribute to the multi-unit stacking feature set — topology management, member election, cross-unit configuration synchronization
• Build & Release: Maintain and improve the cross-compilation build system (GNU Make, Docker). Support release engineering processes including image generation
• Collaborate daily with the various engineering teams and have significant ownership over critical platform subsystems

What you need

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Git
• Linux
• Telecom
• C
• Docker
• System design
• B.Tech or B.E. or M.Tech

Good to have

• REST APIs
• iOS
• CI/CD
• Embedded C
• Prototyping