2 days ago
Base Salary
$343k - $433k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and implement multi-year technical strategies for agentic systems across Cisco’s product portfolio and engineering organizations.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for architectural decisions and drive adoption of standards such as the Model Context Protocol.
- Architect scalable hybrid and graph-based retrieval systems for telemetry correlation, root cause analysis, and automated remediation.
- Establish company-wide standards for AI safety, observability, compliance, auditability, and resilience.
- Mentor Principal and Senior-level technical leaders and represent Cisco at industry forums, standards bodies, and conferences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 17+ years of software engineering experience, a master’s degree with 14+ years, or a PhD with 10+ years.
- At least 5 years operating at Principal level or above, with technical-strategy influence across at least three distinct product organizations.
- At least 2 years designing, developing, and deploying LLM-based systems serving 10,000+ daily active users or processing 500+ requests per second.
- Production experience architecting and shipping at least one multi-agent system using LangGraph, Temporal, or an equivalent state-machine framework.
- At least 10 years writing production-grade Go, Python, or Rust in hyperscale environments supporting large microservice architectures or petabyte-scale data pipelines.
- Experience implementing at least three production safety or observability features, such as prompt-injection defenses, human-in-the-loop gates, or automated rollbacks.
- Preferred experience with AI governance frameworks including NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act, advanced post-training, inference-serving optimization, external technical contributions, or AIOps and network management.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based out of Cisco’s San Jose office.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Paid holidays, birthday and year-end shutdown time, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off depending on classification, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
- Eligibility for annual bonuses, Cisco restricted stock unit grants, and additional benefits and perks subject to applicable plans and policies.
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About Cisco
Cisco is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all.