Software Engineer

Meet the Team

Cisco is looking for an AI/ML Software Engineer to build services that make engineering teams more productive and develop AI capabilities for Cisco products. You’ll work across software engineering and applied AI, turning practical needs into secure, scalable services and product features.

Your Impact

• Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs for engineering productivity and AI-enabled product experiences.
• Develop AI/ML capabilities using approaches such as large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, machine learning, or intelligent automation.
• Integrate AI services with product systems, engineering tools, and data sources.
• Build reliable workflows for model or service evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and improvement.
• Improve service quality, scalability, latency, security, and cost.
• Work with engineering, product, data, and platform teams to define requirements and deliver solutions.
• Measure the usefulness and performance of AI features, and use feedback to improve them.
• Write maintainable code, participate in design and code reviews, and document key decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

• Overall experience in networking - 8 to 12 yrs
• Practical 2+ years of experience building software services, AI/ML applications, or both.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, Go, or a similar language.
• Experience designing APIs and building backend or distributed systems.
• Familiarity with machine learning or generative AI concepts and frameworks.
• Experience integrating services with databases, cloud platforms, or enterprise systems.
• Understanding of software testing, version control, observability, and secure development practices.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to work across teams.
• A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience building LLM-powered services, including retrieval, tool use, or evaluation.
• Experience with cloud-native development, containers, and orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, developer platforms, or tools that support software engineering workflows.
• Experience deploying and operating AI-enabled services in production.
• Knowledge of data pipelines, model monitoring, privacy, and responsible AI practices.

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.

Disclaimer

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