Cisco · 4 days ago
Distinguished Engineer - AI Infrastructure Architecture
Miami, FL
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$268K/yr - $339K/yr
12+ years expCisco is a leader in revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect in the AI era. The Distinguished Engineer role focuses on architecting AI infrastructure to enhance Cisco Data Fabric, enabling integration of AI capabilities across diverse data sets and ensuring operational excellence at scale.
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Responsibilities
Architect and operationalize AI infrastructure as a core component of Cisco Data Fabric, enabling engineering teams to integrate AI capabilities across the world's largest, most diverse data sets
Design MLOps platforms that solve complex lifecycle challenges—managing embedding model migrations, version compatibility, and continuous model updates—while ensuring operational excellence through monitoring, governance, and serving at petabyte scale
Identify and drive new opportunities for leveraging AI across the stack, establishing consistent architectural patterns for agent prompts, tool integration, and model orchestration
Build data pipelines and operational frameworks that enable hundreds of engineers to confidently deploy both LLMs and traditional ML models into production
Success is measured by customer adoption and usage of AI-powered features, alongside operational metrics—model performance, inference latency, and deployment velocity—that directly impact customer value
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 15+ years of related experience; or Master's with 12+ years; or PhD with 8+ years or equivalent experience
Designed and deployed AI/ML infrastructure and features in production cloud environments
Experience with major AI services including OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI Service, or similar platforms
Production experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platform
Led technical decisions and architectural direction across engineering organizations of 50+ engineers
Preferred
Experience with LLM-specific infrastructure including agent frameworks, prompt management, and tool integration
Model serving at scale with experience in inference optimization and performance monitoring
Designed and deployed AI/ML infrastructure for on-premises environments
Experience with major ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.) and model formats
Proven track record mentoring and growing engineers, with strong collaboration skills
Benefits
Medical, dental and vision insurance
401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
Paid parental leave
Short and long-term disability coverage
Basic life insurance
10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
Paid year-end holiday shutdown
4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
Annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies
Company
Cisco
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Chuck Robbins
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Carl Solder
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