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Applications are accepted until further notice.?
Meet The Team
You will join a dynamic engineering team, building AI/ML solutions and collaborating closely with various teams, including platform, security, release engineering, and support, to deliver the product. You will also contribute to ensuring the product's smooth operation.?
Your Impact
In this role, you will be responsible for developing and implementing applications based on generative large language models, such as GPT-4, Claude, Llama, and their derivatives, ensuring they meet business requirements. Your duties will include optimizing these generative AI applications for optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. You will engage in red teaming activities to validate the robustness and precision of the applications. Staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI and machine learning is expected, as is suggesting how new technologies might be implemented. Additionally, you will design and develop APIs to facilitate interactions with AI models. Addressing and resolving any issues that arise from AI applications will be an integral part of your responsibilities.?
Collaborates with cross-functional teams to capture, preprocess, and load data for model training, andparticipatesin model architecture discussions.
Develops, customizes, and fine-tunes machine learning models and their layers to address business needs and reduce complexity.
Conducts model training using predefined optimization techniques, including hyperparameter tuning, to ensure models align with problem statements.
Evaluates model performance using standard metrics and contributes to end-to-end automation and deployment efforts.
Writes high-quality, production-ready code for platform-based deployment, supports embedded engineering teams in deploying models, and ensures models meet businessobjectives.
Minimum Qualifications
Completion within the past 3 years, or current enrollment with expected completion within 12 months, of a Bachelors + 2 years of relevant experience or Master's degree program + 0 years of relevant experience.Relevant fieldsinclude:Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering,or a related program
Deep understanding of various machine learning algorithms, including supervised learning (classification, regression), unsupervised learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction),orsemi-supervised learning.?
Preferred Qualifications
Proficient in deploying and scaling ML models using cloud services such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure.
Experienced with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and ML model monitoring tools.
Knowledgeable in big data technologies including Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.
Skilled in Go/Java for backend development and integration with data science applications.
Demonstrated background in machine learning, generative AI, and time series analytics through coursework, research, publications, or industry experience, and effective collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver production-ready ML solutions.
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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
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 certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.
U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco's plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco's policies:
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee's birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco's flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco's policies.
Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:
.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and
Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.
For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.
The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:
New York City Metro Area:
$123,600.00 - $200,100.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$109,900.00 - $181,600.00
For quota-based sales roles on Cisco's sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.
** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.
Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.
Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
