4 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Analyze Cisco and external datasets to identify opportunities, formulate hypotheses, and translate business needs into ML solutions.
- Design and optimize advanced machine learning models for NLP, machine perception, and Generative AI applications.
- Lead adoption of state-of-the-art algorithms and architectures for complex business-critical ML systems.
- Establish technical vision and model design practices across functions and product portfolios.
- Automate workflows for model selection, training, inference, deployment, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement.
- Architect specialized data pipelines and optimization techniques to improve model training, accuracy, and computational efficiency.
- Guide teams toward scalable, reliable ML solutions and mentor engineers on ML platforms and cloud-native best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years, master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Strong expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and neural network architecture design for NLP, machine perception, or related applications.
- Hands-on experience with transformer-based and convolutional architectures, knowledge distillation, student-teacher models, and GANs.
- Experience with model training, inference optimization, data preparation, and specialized data-splitting strategies.
- Experience automating ML workflows and addressing model performance, scalability, efficiency, and reliability challenges.
- Demonstrated technical leadership in system architecture, ML platforms, cloud-native practices, and engineer mentoring.
- Ability to evaluate emerging AI/ML approaches and translate research into scalable, production-ready solutions.
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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.