Drimva

Cisco

Machine Learning Engineering Technical Leader

$234K–$384K

Seattle, Washington, US · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026

Experience
5+ years post-doctoral or industry experience with a PhD; or 10+ years industry experience with a Master’s degree. Also requires 3+ years developing LLMs for program synthesis or formal languages, 2+ years in multi-step planning or agentic AI for developer workflows, and 3+ years each with Python/deep learning frameworks and productionizing research prototypes.
Education
PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field; or a Master’s degree in a related field.

About the job

Leads research and production deployment of AI systems for intelligent code generation, including agentic models and DSL-aware code synthesis.

What you'll do

  • Own the lifecycle of AI research and deployment, from model design and evaluation through production rollout.
  • Set the scientific roadmap for agentic GenAI and advance DSL-aware code synthesis and scalable training and inference.
  • Partner with engineering and product, mentor researchers, and shape AI strategy and technical direction.

What they ask for

  • PhD in a related technical field plus 5+ years of post-doctoral or industry experience; or a Master’s degree in a related field plus 10+ years of industry experience.
  • 3+ years developing Large Language Models (LLMs) for program synthesis or formal languages.
  • 2+ years in multi-step planning or agentic AI for developer workflows.
  • 3+ years with Python and deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow, and 3+ years translating research prototypes into production systems.

Nice to have

  • Strong foundation in experimental design, benchmarking, reproducibility, evaluation metrics, and scientific documentation.
  • Experience with code-generation LLMs, structured-language modeling, agentic AI, large-scale training and optimization, MLOps, or research leadership.

Pay

$234,400.00 to $296,600.00 USD (base salary); $256,900.00 - $383,500.00 USD (base salary, New York City Metro Area); $234,400.00 - $341,100.00 USD (base salary, Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)

Tools

Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Code-LLaMA, CodeT5, StarCoder, GPT

AI focus

Research and deploy GenAI systems for code generation, including agentic planning, tool use, DSL-aware synthesis, and scalable model training and inference.

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First seen Oct 16, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)