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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