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Base Salary
$214k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and build production AI and agentic AI solutions, including orchestration, tool integration, retrieval-augmented generation, and autonomous workflows.
- Design, deploy, and operate secure microservice applications on AWS and Kubernetes across application, API, container, identity, and data layers.
- Establish architectural patterns and engineering practices adopted by other teams.
- Lead design and code reviews and mentor engineers.
- Define systems with guardrails, measurable reliability, and production operational readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 11+ years of related experience, or master’s degree and 7+ years, or PhD and 3+ years, or equivalent related work experience.
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience using Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- 5+ years designing, deploying, and operating microservice applications on a public cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- 3+ years running containerized workloads in Kubernetes in production.
- 2+ years building generative AI or large language model applications, including at least one production system using RAG, embeddings, or tool and function calling.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; enterprise-scale agentic AI platform experience; experience with LangGraph, LangChain, Model Context Protocol, or Semantic Kernel; AI security and production guardrail, policy, evaluation, and observability experience; and evidence of cross-organizational technical influence through patents, publications, open-source contributions, or major engineering initiatives.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with a flexible in-office schedule requiring commuting to the San Jose, California office.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) matching; paid parental leave; disability coverage; and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday and wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
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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.