2 days ago
Base Salary
$247k - $327k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and prototype AI-driven solutions with customers across complex heterogeneous enterprise environments.
- Use Cisco AI infrastructure and the Splunk portfolio to accelerate customer business outcomes and time to value.
- Work as an embedded engineer to influence technical decisions, demonstrate solutions, and support customer retention and growth.
- Collaborate with Cisco product engineering teams to provide field insights and improve the AI-integrated portfolio.
- Mentor and collaborate with Forward Deployed Solutions Engineers while fostering technical excellence and customer ownership.
- Travel within the assigned territory for business and customer engagements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical engineering experience.
- At least 9 years of professional post-sales and pre-sales experience working directly with customers on distributed software and system architecture deployments.
- At least 3 years of experience with generative and agentic AI, machine learning platforms, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, cloud-native and hybrid platforms, and large-scale enterprise data architectures.
- Experience using AI to realize customer business outcomes with fast time to value.
- Top Secret security clearance or ability to obtain one.
- Preferred: 7+ years leading technical customer-facing engagements involving ambiguous, high-impact enterprise projects.
- Preferred: 5+ years of Cisco and Splunk experience or equivalent experience with a top competitor.
- Preferred: AI, data science, and enterprise certifications and/or education.
- Must be a United States citizen.
Benefits
- Remote work from anywhere in the United States.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance, subject to eligibility.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, and family emergency leave, subject to policy and employee classification.
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per year.
- Annual bonuses for non-sales roles and performance-based incentive pay for employees on applicable sales plans.
Tech Stack
KubernetesSplunk
Categories
Forward DeployedSolutions 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.