Cisco Technical Marketing Engineering 

United States, California, San Jose 

971804776

You will work with a diverse group of problem solvers and creative thinkers focusing on the Nexus 9000, NXOS, Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC), and Network fabric for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. The role requires a high level of initiative, energy and rapid thinking.

As a senior NX-OS Networking Technical Marketing Engineer , you will bridge the gap between our engineering, sales, and marketing teams. You will play a pivotal role in driving product adoption by demonstrating technical expertise, creating impactful marketing collateral, and engaging with customers to showcase the value of our Nexus offering for all Data Center Architectures incld AI networking solutions. This hands-on role requires a high degree technical proficiency, marketing strategy, and customer interaction.

Technical Expertise and Enablement:

• Act as a technical expert for NX-OS architectures including NDFC , Nexus Dashboard networking products and solutions.
• Collaborate with major customers and Sales teams to understand and fulfill their Data Center Network Fabric requirements.
• Partner with engineering and product management to define and refine product requirements and solutions.
• Develop and execute the technical strategy for NX-OS incld Nexus Dashboard, focusing on AI-driven automation and AIOps.
• Provide technical training, demonstrations, and support to internal teams, partners, and customers.
• Represent the team & lead technical Deepdive sessions at large Cisco and Industry events

• Develop technical marketing collateral, including white papers, solution briefs, case studies, technical presentations, and videos.
• Write and present thought leadership content, such as blog posts, webinars, and conference presentations.
• Collaborate with the product and marketing teams to define messaging and positioning for DC networking solutions.

• Work closely with customers to understand their use cases, gather feedback, and demonstrate product capabilities.
• Partner with the sales team to support pre-sales efforts, including delivering proof-of-concept (POC) demonstrations and addressing technical queries.

• Develop and showcase real-world use cases and demos to highlight DC networking capabilities.
• Partner with the engineering team to provide feedback for continuous product improvement.

• Represent the company at industry events, trade shows, and conferences as a technical evangelist.
• Engage with key collaborators to build relationships and promote the company’s solutions.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 15+ years of experience in technical marketing, product Engineering , pre-sales engineering, or a related technical role.
• Expertise in DC networking technologies, WAN or Service Provider and Knowledge of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, ISIS, VXLAN, Cloud, virtualization including high-performance computing (HPC), RDMA, Ethernet, Dynamic Load-Balancing techniques etc
• Experience in working with various software defined network controllers, ansible and other automation technologies.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, protocols, and hardware (e.g., switches, NICs, DPUs).
• Ability to tackle complex problems creatively. Good verbal and writing skills. Able to create white papers for publishing on Cisco’s website. Must be a great teammate and work well in small and large group environments. Comfortable making pitches to customers and Cisco employees.

• Hands-on experience with network performance benchmarking and tuning.
• Knowledge of open-source AI and networking tools and ecosystems.
• Proven track record of developing technical marketing content for a technical audience