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Software Engineering Technical Leader

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Base Salary

$187k - $268k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build software systems that analyze DVT test results, hardware configurations, failure behavior, and engineering telemetry.
  • Develop workflows for fault isolation, comparative test analysis, and identification of recurring failure signatures.
  • Apply software and AI techniques to ASIC, optics, power, environmental, and other hardware data.
  • Architect event-driven ingestion workflows that process, validate, and normalize structured and unstructured engineering data.
  • Design metadata-driven and hybrid retrieval systems for test runs, hardware inventory, configurations, and diagnostic outputs.
  • Create reusable architectures for AI copilots, data-access tools, and production agent systems.
  • Collaborate across design, qualification, and production while mentoring engineers and supporting quality and reliability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field with 10+ years of experience, or a master’s degree with 8+ years of experience.
  • Proven experience building production services using Python, FastAPI, LangGraph, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, AWS Bedrock, OpenSearch, Docker, Kubernetes, and EKS.
  • Experience architecting event-driven ingestion workflows using AWS services for large structured and unstructured engineering datasets.
  • Experience with metadata-driven and hybrid retrieval approaches for engineering diagnostics and investigation.
  • Knowledge of reusable software architecture patterns for AI copilots, data-access tools, and production agent systems.
  • Preferred qualifications include strong troubleshooting and debugging skills, collaborative system design and specification writing experience, and technical proficiency in AI/ML applications.
  • Preferred knowledge includes Layer 2/3 network protocols, network processors, optical networking, secure boot, open-source tools, and CMIS/SFF standards including SFP and QSFP.

Benefits

  • U.S. and Canada salary range is listed as $186,900.00 to $267,700.00, with additional location-specific ranges.
  • Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
  • Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
  • Paid time away includes holidays, personal wellness days, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
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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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