The application window is expected to close on 4/20/2025
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Preference for Boston Metro candidates that can work hybrid in the Downtown Boston office one to two days week. However, open to remote locations within the US.

MEET THE TEAM

Cisco Systems offers an extraordinary opportunity to be part of a small, innovative team with a high-throughput, low-process culture. This team, originally founded as a Cisco-funded startup, is building a cutting-edge cloud-native cybersecurity management platform. We are seeking a passionate AI Technical Leader to develop cybersecurity and networking AI agentic workflows that emulate Network Engineers, an industry-first, and contribute toward a vision of smart, self-healing networks.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field with 8+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years of AI/ML experience
• Experience in MLOps & Data Pipelines with data preprocessing, feature engineering, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate etc), orchestration, deploying and serving models on public clouds, and monitoring
• Experience with at least one of the AI/ML frameworks and relevant tools around it to build end-to-end AI workflows (Ex: LangChain, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, OpenAI APIs etc)
• 5 + years of professional work experience with Python, Go, Java or another relevant language, with experience with scalable and secure software development practices
• AI/ML experience building and deploying discriminative and generative AI workflows - predictive models, LLM-based applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and AI Agents

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with Networking & Security: Experience with products that make the internet work, and of the cybersecurity landscape, is a plus. Keywords: Next Gen Firewalls, Threat Detection, IPS, TCP/IP stack, VPN, ZTNA, routing, packet analysis, event analysis etc.
• Experience building cloud native apps on AWS
• Experience building platforms and frameworks that democratize tech for large orgs - with particular focus on data and AI facets
• Startup Mindset: Comfortable operating in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment where initiative and ownership are key; bias toward rapid iteration and lean AI/ML development

Please refer the Job description for details