Technical Lead, Software Engineer - AI/ML Fabric Infrastructure

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  • Location:
    Milpitas, California, US
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Compensation Range
    173100 USD - 241700 USD
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    AI or Artificial Intelligence
  • Job Id
    1436084
The application window is expected to close on: 2/24/2025. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. 
 
Meet the Team 

A Cisco Software Engineering team member is responsible for designing, developing, and testing software applications that power Cisco networking devices, often focusing on areas like network protocols, device drivers, operating systems, and cloud-based solutions, requiring a strong understanding of networking fundamentals and proficiency in AI ML technologies and testing and to create innovative and reliable software for various Cisco products, collaborating closely with other engineers and teams to ensure seamless integration and high-quality deliverables.
 
Your Impact 

In this role, you will part of a team of engineers and technical leaders in the design and solutions of software features for control plane and data plane on Cisco’s Silicon One platform products. You will be responsible for benchmarking platforms that will be used to build highly scalable, low power, low latency, dense systems for the ever-demanding AI/ML workloads, internet users and applications. You will use modern AI/ML applications, delve into Silicon One and architecture. As a technical leader, you will be part of requirement discussions with the customer and will work on scoping the feature post-closing the requirements. You will take complete ownership of delivering benchmarking related tasks in a timely manner and with outstanding quality. You will be the gatekeeper of the benchmarking high performance silicon related validation in the domains you own. You will gain intimate knowledge of the Silicon One hardware architecture, software programming models and work with the architecture and hardware teams to define the next generation of ASIC products being developed. 

Minimum Qualifications: 
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field with 8 + years of relevant work experience or master’s degree with 6 + years of related experience. 
  • Experience with writing use cases and testing datacenter networks and protocols for high performing and scalable networking products.
  • Working experience with Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking protocols and technologies including BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, SPRING and more.
  • Experience with QoS (Quality of Service), DCQCN or AI/ML congestion management and congestion control mechanisms.
  • Network operating systems experience like SONiC, NexusOS, XR or other Linux like OS. 
Preferred Qualifications: 
  • Hands on skills in routing protocols and AI ML designs.
  • Experience in debugging customer related issues.
  • Experience in advanced network testers like Ixia, IBPerf, NCCL etc.
  • Experience in DCQCN and AI ML congestion management and congestion control mechanisms.
  • Deep understanding of dense data center design, including computing, storage, networking and cloud, edge networking products.
 
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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! 
 
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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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