7 days ago
Base Salary
$133k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end software architectures, microservices, and API topologies for global service supply chain domains.
- Develop AI-native decision engines, human-in-the-loop agent workflows, and Model Context Protocol integrations.
- Design data pipelines and storage models across MongoDB, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
- Build functional proof-of-concept prototypes and collaborate with engineering teams on automated testing and quality governance.
- Define testing strategies, support automated validation, facilitate User Acceptance Testing and defect triage, and ensure high test coverage.
- Partner with product managers, operations teams, engineering leads, and executive stakeholders to establish technical roadmaps and consensus.
- Mentor architectural talent and address architectural bottlenecks across distributed enterprise environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 4 years of related experience, or a PhD and 1 year of related experience, with 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering design, enterprise solution architecture, and distributed systems design.
- Expertise architecting end-to-end, multi-tier enterprise solutions, microservices, and API-driven architectures in complex distributed environments.
- Proficiency with technology-agnostic integration, enterprise messaging, and service-oriented communication patterns.
- Strong understanding of data architecture, including document stores, enterprise cloud data platforms, and relational databases.
- Experience defining solution testing strategies, collaborating with QA/QE on automated validation, and facilitating User Acceptance Testing and defect triage.
- Functional knowledge of supply chain operations such as Order Management, logistics, asset recovery, carrier integration, repair, compliance, or inventory management.
- Ability to influence technical roadmaps, drive consensus across multidisciplinary stakeholders, and mentor architects.
- Preferred experience designing AI-native solutions, agentic workflows, LLM tool integrations, Model Context Protocol, and prompt engineering frameworks.
- Preferred hands-on experience with Cursor, Copilot, and Claude for AI-assisted software construction and rapid prototyping.
- Preferred experience with automated testing frameworks, performance benchmarking, AI-driven quality assurance, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, or enterprise private cloud.
- Advanced understanding of high availability, fault tolerance, and secure data access governance.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off depending on employee classification, and paid sick time.
- Optional paid volunteer time and additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues.
- The application window is expected to close on October 28, 2026.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
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.