Research Scientist, AI

at  Cisco Systems

WHO WE ARE

The Cisco Networking Engineering AI Research team consists of AI research scientists, data scientists, and network engineers with subject matter expertise who collaborate on both basic and applied research projects. We are motivated by tackling unique research challenges that arise when connecting people and devices at a world-wide scale.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Publications at top AI venues such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, ICML, NAACL, NeurIPS, or similar, or grants, fellowships, or awards
• Experience working with Machine Learning Models (MLMs) and familiarity with associated frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or equivalent platforms

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience driving research projects within an industry or university lab
• Interest in combining representation learning and problem-specific properties
• Experience in building, fine-tuning foundation models including LLMs and multi-modal models or domain specific models
• Ability to maintain cutting-edge knowledge in generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and multi-modal models and apply these technologies innovatively to emerging business problems, use cases, and scenarios
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to collaboration
• Experience working in an industrial research lab (full-time, internship, sabbatical, etc.)

As a Research Scientist, your primary role is to produce fundamental research advances in the field of AI and how it relates to networking, programming, human-computer interaction, and other strategic areas in computer science. You will research foundational representations relevant to networking and security to provide value across a diverse sets of applications. You will be a thought leader in the global research community via publishing papers, giving technical talks, organizing workshops etc.