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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