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Cisco · 7 months ago

Technical Lead, Machine Learning (AI Defense)

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$185K/yr - $235K/yr

7+ years exp

Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware and technology services, and they are seeking a Technical Lead in Machine Learning. In this role, you will drive end-to-end ML solutions and collaborate with various teams to design and deploy AI-powered systems that address real-world challenges.

Communications InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareHardwareSoftware

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

End-to-end ML solutionsTransformer-based modelsML infrastructure optimizationPythonGoPyTorchTensorFlowLangChainLlamaIndexHugging Face modelsAI securityRisk detectionFraud detectionOpen-source ML projects

Required

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

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

Benefits

Dedicated paid time off to volunteer-80 hours each year

Company

Cisco

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Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products. It is a sub-organization of Cisco Press.

Founded in 1984

San Jose, California, USA

10001+ employees

http://www.cisco.com

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