Cisco

Gen AI Senior Software Engineer

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1 day ago
Durham, NC, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$170k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, deploy, and optimize scalable Generative AI frameworks for on-premise and cloud environments.
  • Architect secure document-processing workflows covering ingestion, classification, retrieval, and automated fine-tuning.
  • Optimize model architectures, hyperparameters, and fine-tuning strategies for performance and scalability.
  • Develop RAG and Agentic AI applications and services using Gen AI frameworks and vector databases.
  • Implement data security, encryption, access controls, toxicity screening, bias detection, ethical auditing, and regulatory compliance controls.
  • Collaborate with engineering, architecture, legal, governance, and leadership teams on privacy and security requirements.
  • Monitor and maintain AI infrastructure with real-time alerting for system stability and performance.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field plus 10 years of related experience, or a master's degree plus 7 years of related experience.
  • At least 3 years of hands-on Gen AI engineering experience on production use cases.
  • Proficiency in software engineering practices and designing and developing containerized, large-scale distributed applications.
  • Proficiency in Python or a similar programming language.
  • Hands-on experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangSmith, AI operators, and Python for AI operations.
  • Experience with vector databases such as Weaviate, Pinecone, Milvus, or similar technologies.
  • Preferred: master's degree in a relevant STEM field.
  • Preferred: experience designing and developing advanced Agentic AI workflow orchestration.

Benefits

  • U.S. employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock-unit grants, paid holidays, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, wellness days, volunteer time, and family emergency leave, subject to eligibility and company policies.
  • Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses.
  • The application window is expected to close on December 30, 2026.
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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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