Software Engineering Manager, Cisco AI Team
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Location:San Jose, California, US
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Alternate LocationSan Francisco, CA , Seattle, WA
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Area of InterestEngineer - Software
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Compensation Range173100 USD - 241700 USD
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Job TypeProfessional
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Technology InterestAI or Artificial Intelligence
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Job Id1441149
Who We Are
The Cisco’s AI team consists of AI researchers, and software developers who collaborate to build innovative products and platforms for Cisco. We are motivated by tackling unique challenges that arise when connecting people and devices at a world-wide scale.
Who You’ll Work With
You will join a newly formed, dynamic AI team as one of the core members, and have the opportunity to influence the culture and direction of the growing team. Our team includes AI experts and distributed system experts who work together with our partners in products management, and engineers across a wide variety of other Cisco teams.
What you will do:
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading the team that develops common services for our AI Assistant platform. You will collaborate with senior back-end engineers, UI engineers, product managers and SRE engineers to architect, design, and maintain software that powers the AI Assistant platform. Our platform provides building blocks for the various Cisco AI Assistants that offer Gen AI capabilities to customers.
As a Software Engineering Manager you will:
· Collaborate with engineering and other stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities
· Drive Architecture discussions and bring technical alignment with different teams
· Drive platform adoption, define relevant metrics and monitor KPIs
· Be on the lookout for the latest advancements in the field of AI/ML and bring in relevant advancements
· Mentor engineers and encourage the professional growth of everyone on the team.
· Partner with Product Management and Product Engineering teams.
· Be responsible for growing the team, retaining talent, and providing technical direction and career development opportunities.
· Foster a culture of quality, teamwork, and inclusiveness.
You are an ideal candidate if you have:
· 7+ years of software engineering experience
· 3+ years of leadership experience on projects involving meaningful planning and coordination
· Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in building distributed backend systems
· Hands-on experience in one or more of the programming languages like Go, Python etc
· Can implement efficient database design in a relational database
· The ability to work and collaborate across multiple teams
Bonus points for:
· Experience working in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
· Have working knowledge of AI Assistants and AI Agent frameworks
· Experience working with third party vendors and contractors
· Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Jenkins
Who We Are
The Cisco’s AI team consists of AI researchers, and software developers who collaborate to build innovative products and platforms for Cisco. We are motivated by tackling unique challenges that arise when connecting people and devices at a world-wide scale.
Who You’ll Work With
You will join a newly formed, dynamic AI team as one of the core members, and have the opportunity to influence the culture and direction of the growing team. Our team includes AI experts and distributed system experts who work together with our partners in products management, and engineers across a wide variety of other Cisco teams.
What you will do:
As a Software Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading the team that develops common services for our AI Assistant platform. You will collaborate with senior back-end engineers, UI engineers, product managers and SRE engineers to architect, design, and maintain software that powers the AI Assistant platform. Our platform provides building blocks for the various Cisco AI Assistants that offer Gen AI capabilities to customers.
As a Software Engineering Manager you will:
· Collaborate with engineering and other stakeholders to deliver platform capabilities
· Drive Architecture discussions and bring technical alignment with different teams
· Drive platform adoption, define relevant metrics and monitor KPIs
· Be on the lookout for the latest advancements in the field of AI/ML and bring in relevant advancements
· Mentor engineers and encourage the professional growth of everyone on the team.
· Partner with Product Management and Product Engineering teams.
· Be responsible for growing the team, retaining talent, and providing technical direction and career development opportunities.
· Foster a culture of quality, teamwork, and inclusiveness.
You are an ideal candidate if you have:
· 7+ years of software engineering experience
· 3+ years of leadership experience on projects involving meaningful planning and coordination
· Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in building distributed backend systems
· Hands-on experience in one or more of the programming languages like Go, Python etc
· Can implement efficient database design in a relational database
· The ability to work and collaborate across multiple teams
Bonus points for:
· Experience working in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
· Have working knowledge of AI Assistants and AI Agent frameworks
· Experience working with third party vendors and contractors
· Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, and Jenkins
Why Cisco?
#WeAreCisco
#WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all.
Our passion is connection-we celebrate our employees' diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.
We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer-80 hours each year-allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!
Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us.
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