Tech Lead – Machine Learning Engineer

We are a part of Outshift by Cisco focused on identifying breakthrough emerging solutions that create new markets and businesses for Cisco. We incubate these new opportunities in partnership with our business groups, corporate partners, and other startups. The team also continues to progress Cisco’s important work with Standards bodies and runs research partnerships with groundbreaking Universities.

Our organization is anticipating high growth. We are seeking talent with the agility and creativity to explore opportunities and fill in needs as they arise across our teams. Applicants should be seeking a flexible role, in which they not only provide leadership in their primary function, but also contribute in meaningful ways to other projects. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about shifting quickly to different domains that may be outside of their normal scope of responsibilities.

Learn more about us at https://outshift.com .

Who You’ll Work With

The Outshift team is a highly visible team within Cisco. Outshift focuses on the next wave of innovation by anticipating, investing in, and incubating new technologies and business ventures. You will be part of the incubation team to develop new products and bring them to market in a startup-like environment.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you will work in an innovative team, apply and advance powerful AI technologies in products that make tangible business impacts, create the latest AI-powered user experiences on various platforms, work alongside a committed generative AI product management team, gain expertise in the most in-demand AI domains for the future, and contribute to shaping Cisco’s AI strategies for the next decade. You will also collaborate across teams within Cisco, to drive a common AI strategy across the company.

The Impact You’ll Make

Want the challenge of fast-paced growth along with the happiness of seeing thoughtful ideas come to life? The pride in helping grow a world-class AI team. This is the place for you!

Your Responsibilities Will Include

Design and develop end-to-end products to enable easy adoption of generative AI for enterprises.

Collaborate with multi-functional teams including product managers, applied scientists, and other engineers and identify and implement the most effective system design and solutions.

Design and build services and integrations for ML pipelines for LLM fine-tuning, prompt tuning and engineering, Benchmarking and RAG for various generative AI models.

Stay up to date with the latest advancements in the field of AI and apply them to develop cutting- edge solutions.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.

7+ years strong programming skills in Java, C++, Python or other related languages.

5+ years deep coding experience in developing and delivering complex, distributed, enterprise class software.

Understanding of infrastructure needed for building and adoption of Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Image Processing, and generative AI techniques

Preferred Requirements

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently or in a team.

Comfortable and capable of interacting with technologists as with business executives.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Why Cisco

#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters – with people like you!

Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data travelling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and size to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world – whether through 5G, or otherwise.

We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another – from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).

We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.

So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco