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Technical Systems Engineer (Hybrid)

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3 days ago
San Jose, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$131k - $166k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Manage and resolve production-support tickets across business units.
  • Serve as the primary technical escalation point for production issues affecting AI assistants, conversational interfaces, and foundational AI capabilities.
  • Triage, debug, and resolve incidents involving model latency, context overflow, prompt drift, and upstream API failures.
  • Monitor agent workflows, multi-tool function calling, and orchestration layers to maintain high availability and operational SLA adherence.
  • Debug and maintain Python-based AI frameworks, microservices, MCPs, and REST API endpoints.
  • Develop Python automation scripts, health-check utilities, and synthetic monitoring tests.
  • Monitor AI telemetry, token consumption, error rates, and latency using observability platforms.
  • Document processes, resolutions, and recurring issues for knowledge management and training.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 6–7 years of relevant professional experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience using or supporting one or more of Java, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Snowflake, AngularJS, Python, HTTP/RESTful APIs, Elastic, or Kibana.
  • At least 3 years of experience in Technical Support, SRE, or Software Engineering, including 1–2 years supporting AI/ML or LLM-driven applications.
  • Excellent English communication skills for collaboration with global teams.
  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work requiring three days per week in the office at Cisco’s San Jose, California or RTP, North Carolina location.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
  • Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
  • Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.

Tech Stack

DatadogJavaKibanaMongoDBPythonSnowflakeSplunkSQL

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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.

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