Cisco
Technical Marketing Engineering Technical Leader
$179K–$329K
San Jose, California, US +2 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- San Jose, California, US
San Francisco, California, US
New York, New York, US - Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering + 8 years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree + 6 years; also requires 4 years in a specified technical field.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Master’s degree.
About the job
Leads the technical validation, positioning, and customer deployment readiness of Cisco AI infrastructure solutions, translating field feedback into product requirements and enabling adoption through technical content and customer engagement.
What you'll do
- Work with engineering and product management to identify product gaps, remove adoption blockers, and set technical readiness criteria.
- Create technical assets, including white papers, deployment guides, demonstration videos, and workshops.
- Represent product and technical strategy in customer workshops, executive briefings, and industry forums.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering plus 8 years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree plus 6 years of professional experience.
- 4 years of experience in technical marketing, solutions architecture, systems engineering, or platform/site reliability engineering.
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters in production or production-like environments.
- Working knowledge of Linux and infrastructure fundamentals; experience with infrastructure automation using scripting languages or infrastructure-as-code tools; and experience producing technical presentations or documentation.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, GPU clusters, model training pipelines, or AI-workload placement within Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with GPU monitoring, resource sharing, or performance evaluation; cloud platforms; SRE methodologies; or agile, rapid-growth environments.
Pay
$194,600.00 to $285,700.00 USD base salary; $194,600.00 - $328,600.00 USD base salary (New York City Metro Area); $179,000.00 - $294,000.00 USD base salary (Non-Metro New York state & Washington state)
Tools
Kubernetes, Linux, Python, Go, Terraform, Ansible
AI focus
Works on AI infrastructure solutions, including validating deployment readiness and supporting customer adoption; preferred experience includes AI/ML infrastructure, GPU clusters, model training pipelines, and AI-workload placement within Kubernetes.
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