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Cisco Senior Director Engineering United States, Georgia, Atlanta 899149194
27.03.2025
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Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Your Impact
This role is critical to the Cisco AI vision and strategy. Your primary role is to define, own and deliver groundbreaking AI technologies and products. You will contribute to overall organizational strategy and leadership team, while personally evolving into an executive leader.
This role is part of a fun loving, diverse team, with an inclusive culture. Duties cut across the central AI organization to promote AI/ML, business growth and customer lifecycle acceleration across Cisco. You’ll partner with Product Management, Engineering, IT, Digital Transformation, Cisco business entities & our executive team.
- Lead managers and professional staff with integrity, trust and transparency to architect and develop a scalable, AI architecture based on organizational and business priorities.
- Accountable for performance and results of team across multiple job families.
- Develop plans incorporating AI, business and organizational priorities.
- Grow a diverse team of researchers, data engineers and data scientists.
- Empower the digital transformation of products, service and experience via AI/ML.
- Lead the core AI Defense applications team.
- Own end to end delivery of AI Defense features and applications at scale to drive business growth.
- Evaluate, perform due diligence, and standardize AI platform for application development.
- Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in AI, security and architecture, making informed decisions on technology adoption and investment.
- Bridge business and technology enterprise strategic data requirements and product development with key executives.
- Manufacture a platform for AI data training, fine tuning, evaluation and other AI related needs.
- Actively seek opportunities for personal career development via continuous improvement & learning.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience and strong professional network to attract top AI talent and empowering teams to be their best.
- 8+ years of engineering leadership experience in Automation, Technology Modernization and Cloud development or AI/ML.
- Proven experience in a role leading a team of software engineers, architects or ML engineers.
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent 15+ years of Engineering exp OR Master’s degree or an equivalent 12+ years of Engineering exp.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to collaboration.
- Phd (Preferred) with prior experience leading projects within best-in-class AI Research organizations, including training, fine tuning, evaluating and productizing groundbreaking AI models.
- Demonstrated domain expertise in developing large scale, best-in-class language models (Large Language Models, Transformers, etc)
- Ability to deliver results and work multi-functionally to position and orchestrate a solution consisting of multiple products.
- Experienced in architecting and developing highly distributed global cloud-based systems.
- Proven experience in integrating sophisticated, cross-corporate processes and information strategies, including technology planning and execution.
We offer extensive employee benefits including unlimited PTO, 10 paid volunteering days, paid birthday off, 401k match with NO vesting, generous health/dental/vision benefits and much more.
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