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Machine Learning Engineer

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4 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Operate and optimize multi-tenant LLM inference, model serving, VectorDB/RAG, and MCP platforms across cloud and GPU clusters.
  • Establish SLOs, SLIs, health checks, and observability dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Build automation for rollouts, autoscaling, canary deployments, self-healing, and disaster recovery.
  • Tune GPU scheduling, inference throughput, latency, batching, caching, and resource allocation.
  • Lead complex production incidents, perform root-cause analyses, and implement systemic remediations.
  • Partner with researchers, product developers, and platform teams on production readiness reviews and participate in an on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant experience.
  • At least 3 years of programming experience in Python, Go, or Java building automation, tooling, or production backend services.
  • Experience running distributed, containerized production systems using Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD.
  • Experience with production operations, distributed troubleshooting, and monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Hands-on working knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Preferred experience with vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Ray Serve, KServe, GPU scheduling, capacity planning, model parallelism, and performance profiling.
  • Preferred experience operating vector databases, search engines, or distributed cache layers such as Milvus, Pinecone, or Redis.
  • Familiarity with RAG pipelines, model routing, Model Context Protocol, agent runtimes, multi-region high availability, automated remediation, and chaos engineering.

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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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