Cisco
Director, Solutions Engineer Forward Deployed - Splunk (Remote)
$308K–$468K
New York, New York, US +7 · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York, US
Denver, Colorado, US
San Francisco, California, US
Irvine, California, US
Dallas, Texas, US
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Chicago, Illinois, US
Cary, North Carolina, US - Experience
- 10 years minimum; alternatives: Master’s degree plus 8 years or PhD plus 5 years. Also requires 5 years of direct people management and 3 years each in production AI/ML/data platforms and distributed architectures.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical professional experience.
About the job
Leads a customer-embedded engineering team that designs and deploys AI, cloud, and enterprise data solutions for strategic Cisco-Splunk customers.
What you'll do
- Build, scale, hire, and mentor a high-performing Forward Deployed Solutions Engineering team.
- Lead advanced customer deployments that deliver business outcomes and accelerate production adoption.
- Partner with customer executives and Cisco/Splunk product leaders to turn deployment insights into product roadmap innovations.
What they ask for
- At least 10 years in customer-facing pre-sales engineering, post-sales architecture, or professional services deploying distributed software and enterprise systems; alternatively, a Master’s degree plus 8 years or PhD plus 5 years.
- At least 5 years of direct people management leading technical engineering teams.
- At least 3 years architecting, deploying, or managing production AI, ML, or enterprise data platform solutions, and at least 3 years designing and deploying distributed cloud-native, hybrid, or event-driven architectures.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related technical discipline or equivalent practical professional experience.
Nice to have
- Experience leading multi-level or matrixed technical organizations and building high-performing teams.
- Experience with Generative and Agentic AI, Kubernetes, event-driven data platforms, Cisco or Splunk portfolios, executive technical briefings, or customer-embedded engineering.
Pay
$320,600.00 to $407,100.00 USD base salary; $320,600.00 - $468,200.00 USD full salary range; $307,600.00 - $447,000.00 USD full salary range
Tools
Cisco, Splunk Data Platform, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Generative and Agentic AI, Kubernetes, cloud-native, event-driven
AI focus
Leads customer AI transformation, including production AI deployments and co-developed prototype solutions that address business challenges and accelerate production deployment.
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