Drimva

Cisco

Machine Learning Engineering Technical Leader - CX AI

$234K–$384K

San Jose, California, US · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026

Experience
Bachelor's degree with 11+ years of related experience, or Master's degree with 7+ years of related experience.
Education
Bachelor's degree or Master's degree.

About the job

Architects, builds, and operates foundational AI platform services for Cisco customer experiences, spanning model serving, evaluation, agentic infrastructure, APIs, and air-gapped deployments.

What you'll do

  • Own end-to-end technical delivery of AI platform capabilities, from model selection and inference optimization to deployment.
  • Establish rigorous evaluation and release practices, including regression gating, judge calibration, and drift detection.
  • Lead technical roadmaps and mentor senior engineers while collaborating across product, security, and leadership.

What they ask for

  • Machine learning experience in model development, training and adaptation, and evaluation.
  • Experience with Python and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX or similar.
  • Experience taking machine learning work from research or prototype through to production.
  • Production experience in a foundational AI platform area and experience leading full lifecycle projects.

Nice to have

  • Experience with high-performance LLM/SLM inference, model specialization, generative AI evaluation, or agentic architectures.
  • Experience with hybrid or air-gapped AI deployments, MLOps, enterprise security/governance, or external technical contributions.

Pay

$256,900.00 to $333,400.00 USD base salary; $256,900.00 - $383,500.00 USD base salary; $234,400.00 - $341,100.00 USD base salary

Tools

Python, PyTorch, JAX, vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, SGLang, llama.cpp

AI focus

Builds production AI platform capabilities, including model development and adaptation, inference, generative AI evaluation, agentic infrastructure, and deployment across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments.

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