Software Engineer Intern (Placement Year) - UK

Start Date: Early July 2025 Duration: 1 year

Location: Feltham, United Kingdom (Hybrid work approach, working from the Bedfont Lakes office 1-2 days per week.)

What you'll do: Be coached by world-class leaders who will challenge and mentor you. Join together with a team of new graduates all starting your careers together, increase your professional development whilst meeting the demands of your projects and programs. Working within a high caliber software development team you will be immersed in the Agile Software Development process, performing activities such as:

• Requirements collection
• UI Design
• Solution design and evaluation
• Implementation (writing code)
• Unit and QA testing
• Deployment
• Root cause analysis and fixing of defects

At the start of your internship, we'll be focusing on helping you bridge any knowledge gaps, and your tasks will be chosen to support your learning needs. As you progress, we'll rely on you more as a full member of the team working to deliver high-quality software.

Our hiring teams: Collaboration Tools & Experience team: We are responsible for providing automation to aid operational tasks with the collaboration space, ranging from managing infrastructure such as CallManagers & Expressways to auditing all Webex bots that exist in Cisco. We also create products to improve the employee experience in a hybrid work environment.

Requirements: This role might be right for you if you:

• Are a penultimate-year student studying for a degree that is primarily focused on maths, information technology or scientific study
• Have the ability to work well in a team
• Enjoy solving problems
• Curious about how things work and often have ideas about how they can be improved
• A good communicator, both verbally and in writing, and are comfortable sharing your ideas
• Have a demonstrable interest in technology and programming
• Enjoy learning new things and are willing to invest time learning and developing your skills
• Existing software development knowledge and experience are a definite advantage but are not essential

What we offer:

• Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays + an additional day off for your birthday
• Free shuttle buses between local stations and the Cisco Campus office
• 10 days for volunteering activities on top of your normal annual leave allowance
• Employee stock purchase programme
• Employee Resource Organisations, wellbeing programme via Pavelka
• Support in gaining your Cisco certifications
• Develop an extensive knowledge of Cisco's broad product line
• Give you the chance to work with the top engineers who are specialists in their fields
• Give you access to the vast resources of Cisco to help enable your learning

Selection Process: Application - Hiring Team Video Interview – Virtual or Hybrid Cisco Day.