Cisco
Senior Technical Marketing Engineering Leader
$179K–$329K
Milpitas, California, US · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 12 years with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or 8 years with a Master’s degree.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Master’s degree.
About the job
Leads technical validation and customer adoption of Cisco’s AI infrastructure platform, translating engineering capabilities and field feedback into deployable solutions and product requirements.
What you'll do
- Design and validate reference architectures and deployment workflows for AI-driven cloud infrastructure.
- Work with engineering and product teams to address product gaps and define technical readiness.
- Create technical materials and represent the product in customer workshops, briefings, and industry forums.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering + 12 years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree + 8 years of professional experience.
- Experience in technical marketing, solutions architecture, systems engineering, or platform/site reliability engineering.
- Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, and developing infrastructure automation with scripting languages or infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure and creating technical presentations or documentation for technical audiences.
Nice to have
- Technical knowledge of RoCE, lossless Ethernet, or low-latency data center fabrics.
- Experience with cloud platform services, performance benchmarking, or agile, rapid-growth environments.
Pay
$194,600.00 to $285,700.00 (base salary); $194,600.00 - $328,600.00 (base salary); $179,000.00 - $294,000.00 (base salary)
Tools
Kubernetes, Python, Go, Terraform, Ansible, RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
AI focus
Validates and enables AI infrastructure, including GPU clusters, model training pipelines, and AI-workload placement within Kubernetes.
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