Technical Leader, Machine Learning Engineer

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Meet the Team

The AI Software & Platform Team delivers AI products, so businesses around the world defend against threats and safeguard the most important aspects of business with security resilience. We are passionate about making businesses secure and simplifying security with zero compromise.

Your Impact

As a Technical Leader, you will drive end-to-end ML solutions, designing and deploying transformer-based models, building data pipelines, optimizing ML infrastructure, and developing AI-powered systems that solve real-life industry challenges. You will work across modeling, infra, ML ops, and system development, collaborating with engineers, researchers, and customers to shape the future of AI.

• Lead the design and deployment of end-to-end ML solutions for real-world applications
• Develop and fine-tune transformer-based models for diverse AI challenges
• Work across modeling, ML infrastructure, system development, and deployment
• Collaborate with customers and internal teams to align AI solutions with business needs
• Ensure AI models are scalable, robust, and production-ready
• Provide technical mentorship and lead initiatives within the ML team
• Research and apply cutting-edge ML techniques to optimize AI-driven products

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree with 7+ years (or) Masters degree with 5+ years (or) PhD degree with 2+ year of software development industry experience
• 3+ years of industry experience in building ML Systems end-to-end (data processing, model training, deployment)
• Experience in Python or Go and ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with real-world AI problems, especially in customer-facing applications
• Strong understanding of ML fundamentals, classic ML algorithms, modern transformer-based models and deep learning architectures
• Knowledge of LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Hugging Face models
• Background in AI security, risk detection, or fraud detection (a plus, but not required)
• Research experience or contributions to open-source ML projects
• Self-starter with a strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Simply put - we power the future.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

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