11 days ago
Base Salary
$343k - $433k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and implement multi-year technical strategies for agentic systems across Cisco’s product portfolio and global engineering organizations.
- Serve as a primary technical authority, drive executive-level architectural decisions, and promote standards such as the Model Context Protocol.
- Architect scalable hybrid and graph-based retrieval systems for cross-product telemetry, root cause analysis, and automated remediation.
- Establish company-wide standards for AI safety, observability, compliance, auditability, and resilience of autonomous agent actions.
- Mentor Principal and Senior technical leaders and represent Cisco at industry forums, standards bodies, and global conferences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 17+ years of software engineering experience, or a master’s degree with 14+ years, or a PhD with 10+ years.
- At least 5 years operating at Principal level or above, with documented technical-strategy influence across at least three product organizations.
- At least 2 years designing, developing, and deploying production LLM systems serving 10,000+ daily active users or processing 500+ requests per second.
- Experience architecting and shipping at least one production-grade multi-agent system using LangGraph, Temporal, or an equivalent complex state-machine stack.
- At least 10 years writing production-grade Go, Python, or Rust in hyperscale environments supporting architectures such as 100+ microservices or petabyte-scale data pipelines.
- Experience implementing at least three critical production safety or observability features, such as prompt-injection defenses, human-in-the-loop gates, or automated rollbacks.
- Preferred experience includes AI governance frameworks such as NIST AI RMF or EU AI Act compliance, advanced post-training, inference-serving optimization, published research or patents, open-source standards leadership, and AIOps or network-management systems.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based out of Cisco’s San Jose office.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with Cisco matching; paid parental leave; short- and long-term disability coverage; and basic life insurance.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday day off, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and up to 10 paid volunteer days.
- Application window is expected to close on November 22, 2026.
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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.