2 days ago
Base Salary
$219k - $286k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and prototype AI solutions with customers across complex, heterogeneous enterprise environments.
- Accelerate customer business outcomes, time to value, retention, and growth through embedded technical delivery.
- Collaborate with Cisco product engineering teams to provide field insights and improve AI-integrated products.
- Lead customer-facing technical engagements and communicate AI and automation solutions to technical and executive stakeholders.
- Mentor and collaborate with Forward Deployed Solutions Engineers while promoting technical excellence and customer focus.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical engineering experience.
- 7+ years of professional experience in post-sales and pre-sales roles involving customers and distributed software and system architecture deployments.
- 2+ years of experience with generative and agentic AI, machine learning platforms, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, cloud-native and hybrid platforms, and large-scale enterprise data architectures.
- Experience using AI to achieve customer business outcomes and fast time to value.
- Top Secret security clearance or ability to obtain one.
- Willingness and ability to travel within the assigned territory.
- Preferred qualifications include 5+ years leading ambiguous, high-impact enterprise customer engagements, 3+ years of Cisco and Splunk experience or equivalent competitor experience, and AI, data science, or enterprise certifications or education.
Benefits
- Remote work anywhere in the United States, with required travel for customer and business engagements.
- U.S. benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock units and paid annual bonuses or sales-plan incentive compensation according to role and company policies.
- Paid time off includes holidays, birthday leave, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
Tech Stack
KubernetesSplunk
Categories
Forward DeployedSolutions Engineering
About Cisco
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.