4 days ago
Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architectural design and development of scalable backend platform technologies for Cisco’s AI products.
- Architect, build, validate, and deploy AI/ML infrastructure and AI-powered networking and security solutions.
- Resolve highly complex technical challenges affecting the direction of the business.
- Collaborate with product and research teams to turn AI strategies into production-ready systems.
- Communicate engineering strategies to senior leadership and influence internal and external stakeholders.
- Mentor engineering teams and lead cross-functional platform initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science plus 8 years of related experience, or a master’s degree plus 6 years, or a PhD plus 3 years.
- Experience building and scaling backend platforms in production environments.
- At least 5 years of professional programming experience using Python and/or Go.
- Experience deploying and managing services on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
- Preferred: experience integrating and building with generative AI technologies and LLM frameworks.
- Preferred: understanding of modern AI tools, ML methodologies, and data pipelines.
- Preferred: experience driving technology innovation into scalable backend execution.
- Preferred: experience designing reliable, maintainable, distributed backend systems.
- Preferred: experience mentoring engineering teams and leading cross-functional platform initiatives.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement out of Cisco’s San Jose office.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end holiday shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, and sick time.
- Additional paid family emergency leave and optional paid volunteer days.
- Eligibility for annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
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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.