Cisco Technical Lead Machine Learning 

United States, California, San Jose 

979050015

As a Technical Lead, Backend Engineer for our AI Software & Platform team, you will be responsible for lead the following:

• Provide technical leadership to all members of the team to guide designs and implementations towards optimal results with regard to reusability, security, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to design complex systems comprised of multiple ML and non-ML services which meet the highest levels of security, performance, reliability, and scalability while satisfying requirements from within our own team plus those of external integrating teams.
• Collaborate with disparate teams to understand the operations of AI services and integrate them into our Generative AI products.
• Design and build effective interfaces between AI services, ensuring smooth communication and data exchange while adhering to security and performance requirements.
• Implement the right types of instrumentation to monitor and measure the performance, reliability, and security of integrated AI services.
• Debug integration issues, identifying bottlenecks or errors and implementing solutions to optimize service interactions.
• Work on performance tuning and optimization of the integrated AI services to ensure efficient and responsive operation.
• Develop clear and comprehensive documentation for integration processes, interfaces, and instrumentation, facilitating teamwork and knowledge transfer within the team.
• Collaborate closely with AI engineers, data scientists, and security experts to ensure smooth integration of AI services into the products.
• Ensure that integrated AI services meet security and compliance standards, working closely with the security team to implement necessary measures.

8+ years experience as a Backend Engineer with expertise in integrating complex services.

8+ years experience writing code in Python, Java, or Go.

BA / BS degree with 10+ years of experience (or) MS degree with 8+ years of experience as a software development engineer

Experience in AI service operations, including Generative AI, and the ability to design and build interfaces between them.

Understanding of GenAI frameworks and orchestrators like LangChain, Llamalndex, Semantic Kernel or AutoGen.

Foundation in data structures and algorithms.

Experience with instrumentation and monitoring tools for measuring service performance.

Knowledge of compliance standards.

technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.