Job Description

Meet the Team

Join us at Cisco to shape the future of enterprise AI. We are building an AI Platform Team focused on creating the next-generation foundation that powers intelligent, secure, and scalable AI solutions across Cisco's ecosystem. This team is at the forefront of bridging research innovation with real-world application, addressing some of the most fundamental challenges in AI from advancing large language model capabilities and building Agentic frameworks to optimizing data pipelines and ensuring trustworthy AI deployment at scale.

As part of this pioneering effort, you'll collaborate with leading AI researchers, data scientists, and engineers to design, develop, and operationalize AI systems that drive measurable business impact for millions of users worldwide. If you're passionate about solving hard technical problems and shaping how AI transforms enterprise security and networking, this is where you'll make it happen.



Your Impact

As an Engineering Manager, you bring a visionary technical approach and a strong track record of building and leading high-performing ML/AI engineering teams. You will guide the design, architecture, and delivery of scalable machine learning systems while fostering an engineering culture focused on innovation, technical excellence, and measurable outcomes.

You will:

Lead, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team focused on LLM-driven and agentic AI solutions. Drive end-to-end technical strategy across model development, optimization, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. Partner with research and product teams to translate advanced AI capabilities into robust, scalable, production-ready systems. Influence architectural decisions and engineering standards to ensure reliability, efficiency, and security across the AI platform. Champion best practices in experimentation, model governance, responsible AI, and performance optimization. Enable your team to tackle ambiguity, solve complex problems creatively, and deliver high-impact solutions at scale.

Minimum Qualifications



BA/BS degree with 10+ years of experience in machine learning, AI engineering, or a related technical field.

(or)MS degree with 8+ years of relevant experience



Solid experience leading engineering teams and delivering production ML/AI systems. Strong portfolio of successful, large-scale machine learning projects. Expertise in machine learning algorithms, deep learning, LLMs, and statistical modeling.

Preferred Qualifications



Advanced degree inComputer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Computational Linguistics, or related field. Proficiency inPython, with experience in ML frameworks such asTensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn. Experience with distributed systems, model serving, MLOps workflows, and GPU compute environments. Excellent problem-solving ability with strong communication and cross-functional teamwork skills. Proven success working with product, research, and platform teams to ship real-world AI solutions.

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Why Cisco?



At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.