AI Engineering Technical Leader

About the role

The Cisco IT team is changing the way we run Cisco's operations by leveraging the power of technology, the best of business processes, and utilizing outstanding data insights. We are redefining how Cisco designs and delivers the employee, partner, and customer experience based on a culture that values customer service. We strive for speed and agility in all that we do. Above all else, we are kind to each other. We aspire to be an industry-leading IT team, with a strong focus on AI and security to differentiate us and foster innovation. To achieve simplicity and the best employee and customer experience, we need excellent talent and the right abilities to succeed. Who You'll Work With You will work with our amazing Enterprise Data & Platforms team as part of Cisco IT organization. You will build solutions and support them across our portfolio of capabilities, primarily focusing on enabling AI/ML and Generative AI capabilities in a multi-functional team setup. You will collaborate with other engineers, architects, and organization leadership.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize high-performance, scalable Generative AI frameworks for on-premise and cloud environments.
• Architect secure workflows for end-to-end document processing, including ingestion, classification, retrieval, and automated fine-tuning pipelines.
• Implement robust data security, encryption, and access control protocols to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
• Integrate responsible AI practices, including toxicity screening, bias detection, and ethical auditing, to ensure safe and compliant model deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional, legal, and governance teams to maintain alignment with evolving privacy and security frameworks.
• Monitor and maintain AI infrastructure with real-time alerting to ensure system stability and performance.
• Stay current with advancements in Generative AI, document security, and ethical AI development to drive continuous infrastructure improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• 3+ years hands-on experience in Gen AI engineering on production use cases.
• Proficiency in software engineering best practices, design and development of containerized large-scale distributed applications, and use of DevOps and CI/CD tools,
• Proficiency in Python programming language or similar.
• Hands-on experience with Gen AI frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangSmith, AI operators, with proficiency in Python for AI operations.
• Experience with vector databases, such as Weaviate, Pinecone, Milvus or similar.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field.
• Experience with design and development of advanced Agentic AI workflows orchestration.
• Why Cisco?
• We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
• Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
• The starting salary range posted for this position is $180,900.00 to $229,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.
• Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for cer

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The application window is expected to close on: 07/31/2026 Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received .

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