Jobs at Cisco

Design and deliver low-level platform software for enterprise routers, including ROMMON, bootloaders, device drivers, and forwarding-plane components. Lead hardware bring-up, debug across hardware/firmware/software layers, write tested maintainable code, mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional integration and automated testing.

Lead product and service design strategy by translating ambiguous business problems into testable requirements, prioritized backlogs, and discovery artifacts. Facilitate cross-functional workshops, run lightweight research and prototyping, advocate and contribute to the Design System, and coach teams to raise design maturity and accessibility.

Design and implement embedded software and networking features for Cisco 8000 routers. Work on device drivers, SDKs and control-plane components with significant software/hardware interaction, optimize memory architectures, and support router forwarding and networking protocols.

Serve as technical lead for customer onboarding, deployments, and high‑severity escalations for Cisco Spaces. Collaborate with Sales and Engineering to run PoVs, resolve complex issues, deploy field trials, build diagnostic tools, refine processes, and enable customers and support teams to maximize product value.

Lead end-to-end AI research programs: design experiments, build and evaluate models (including LLMs), synthesize insights, collaborate with product and engineering, mentor colleagues, and communicate results via presentations, papers, and patents to influence enterprise AI product decisions.

Design, build, and operate large-scale on-prem Kubernetes platforms for AI/ML workloads. Own control plane and etcd, develop controllers/operators in Go, enable GPU workloads, implement IaC and AIOps, optimize performance, and provide on-call incident response while collaborating with ML teams.

Design and build web-based content and knowledge workflow platforms and tools using JavaScript, PHP, and Python. Integrate AI/LLM solutions, collaborate with product, UX, and technical writers, deploy cloud-scalable applications, and support content authoring, publishing, and APIs to improve content delivery and user experience.

Lead a team building production AI systems for code generation and developer productivity. Define technical roadmap, drive architecture for distributed training/inference and model serving, partner cross-functionally, establish evaluation/observability/benchmarking practices, and hire and mentor engineering talent to deliver scalable, reliable AI-powered developer tooling.

Lead QA for Cisco Meraki MX and Catalyst security/SD-WAN products: define test strategies, collaborate with PMs and devs, build and maintain automation for CI/CD, run integration/scalability/stress tests, validate security features, and apply AI-driven test innovations to improve coverage and regression testing.

Drive GTM strategy, build demo/POC environments and field enablement assets for Data Fabric and Splunk Platform. Align product, sales, marketing, and enablement teams; support technical pre-sales, product feedback loops, and global activation to accelerate adoption and scale.

Lead research, design, and deployment of large-scale foundation models for machine-generated data (logs, time series, traces). Define AI strategy, mentor senior engineers, partner with product and exec teams, and drive production-grade model training, optimization, and MLOps for enterprise-scale applications.

Lead SRE to architect and operate resilient hybrid-cloud (GCP + on-prem) Kubernetes platforms, enforce IAM and quota policies, secure and scale microservices, implement automation (Terraform/Docker), design observability via Elasticsearch/Kibana, and integrate security-by-design with Apigee and development teams.

Design, build, and deploy scalable AI/ML solutions and agents to monitor and optimize public cloud resources. Integrate ML insights with multi-cloud providers, create ETL pipelines, use Snowflake and Athena for data processing, automate workflows with Airflow, and ensure secure, high-performance cloud deployments while mentoring engineers and improving developer productivity.

Lead the global KCS Center of Excellence to align knowledge management with AI-driven support. Drive strategy, governance, team leadership, cross-functional integration, technology adoption (AI, ML, Salesforce, Splunk, Tableau), and change management to improve knowledge quality, findability, automation, CSAT, and cost-to-serve metrics.

Technical leader for Splunk Platform Identity responsible for architecture, secure identity product development, mentoring engineers, scoping projects, driving designs, documentation, testing, and collaborating with product teams to deliver scalable identity solutions across cloud and distributed environments.

Serve as an Area Technical Account Manager (TAM) for Splunk Core Platform, advising account teams and customers on architecture, onboarding, adoption, and value realization. Deliver technical consulting, workshops, issue resolution, and enablement while driving account health, renewal readiness, and practice improvements.

Drive adoption and value realization for enterprise customers by creating and executing Technical Adoption Plans (TAPs) using AI-driven insights. Lead technical enablement, workshops, executive briefings, and complex labs; align cross-functional teams to ensure onboarding, renewals, and expansion. Act as trusted advisor and technology evangelist, mentor senior talent, collaborate with product and GTM teams, and scale best practices globally.

Lead technical adoption strategies for large enterprise customers, driving TAP creation and execution, AI-driven insights, workshops, labs, and enablement to maximize Cisco technology utilization, renewals, and expansion while advising executives and collaborating with product, sales, and cross-functional teams.

Develop and integrate advanced security features (firewall, IPS/IDS, content/file inspection) for Cisco's SD-WAN routing portfolio. Design, implement, test, and debug efficient C/C++ and Python code, collaborate with product and architecture teams, author design specs, and mentor junior engineers while using modern development workflows.

Lead design and delivery of software features for Cisco Silicon One NPU using modern C++, the Silicon One network processing language, and Python. Scope requirements with customers, own domains of the codebase, guide and unblock engineers, ensure timely high-quality releases, and collaborate with architecture and hardware teams. Requires deep networking protocol knowledge (Layer-2/multicast) and debugging skills.