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AI Operations Engineer

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9 days ago
Durham, NC, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$170k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build AI agents that automate manual and repetitive Commerce Operations tasks.
  • Implement agent orchestration, agent-to-agent integrations, RAG pipelines, prompt and context engineering, guardrails, approval gates, routing, and failover mechanisms.
  • Develop secure API and enterprise-data integrations using REST, GraphQL, webhooks, event-driven services, authentication, rate limiting, and error handling.
  • Build evaluation and observability capabilities including test sets, monitoring, tracing, audit logging, and regression detection.
  • Own deployment and production operations, including progressive rollout, rollback, monitoring, model and version control, CI/CD, and cost tracking.
  • Measure AI solution performance and business impact through efficiency, cycle-time, incident, and accuracy metrics.
  • Partner with Commerce Operations, application development, infrastructure, and business teams to integrate AI workflows into existing systems.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field within an enterprise environment.
  • Production experience building and deploying LLM-powered or agentic AI applications.
  • Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with LLM and agent frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK, or Anthropic SDK.
  • Practical expertise in RAG, prompt engineering, tool and function calling, agent orchestration, and multi-agent communication or workflow orchestration.
  • Experience with REST, GraphQL, event-driven services, authentication, API integrations, and enterprise data sources.
  • Ability to lead technical delivery and collaborate with multifunctional business and engineering teams.
  • Preferred: experience with A2A, MCP, OpenAPI-based tools, multi-agent systems, human-in-the-loop workflows, guardrails, evaluation and observability platforms, vector databases, advanced retrieval, AI governance, cloud platforms, and MLOps/LLMOps.
  • Preferred: advanced degree in AI, Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field, plus commerce or supply-chain operations experience.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement with semi-regular presence at Cisco’s Raleigh office.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with matching contribution; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
  • Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
  • Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, emergency family leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
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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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