Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of purpose-built large language models to secure and optimize Cisco's proprietary networking, security, data center, and observability infrastructure.
• Drive advanced pre-training initiatives to build foundational models that provide unique, competitive value across our product portfolio.
• Conduct innovative research in generative AI to improve model capabilities for networking automation and human-computer interaction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers and strategists to integrate research breakthroughs into tangible business solutions.
• Establish Cisco as a global thought leader by publishing research in top-tier AI venues and contributing to the broader scientific community.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 12+ years of experience or a Master's degree in STEM with 8+ years of experience, or a PhD in STEM or a related technical field with 5+ years of relevant research experience.
• Experience leading or contributing to at least one full-cycle pre-training, distillation based pre-training or continual pre-training project for a Large Language Model (LLM) or foundational model, including dataset curation, tokenization strategy, and training pipeline execution.
• Minimum of 3 peer-reviewed publications in top-tier AI venues such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, ICML, NAACL, or NeurIPS.
• 3+ years of experience utilizing PyTorch or TensorFlow to implement and train models on distributed computing clusters (e.g., environments utilizing 100+ GPUs).
• 2+ years of experience applying machine learning models to networking, data center, security, or observability datasets to solve complex system-level problems.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working in an industrial research lab environment, driving projects from conceptual research to practical application.
• Subject matter expertise in networking, cybersecurity, or observability, and the ability to apply AI to these complex domains.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction and build consensus among stakeholders.
• Proven ability to translate abstract research findings into innovative, scalable product features.

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
• Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $216,300.00 - $280,800.00

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Responsibilities:

• Help build purpose-built large language models to secure and optimize Cisco’s proprietary networking, security, data center, and observability infrastructure.
• Drive pre-training initiatives to build foundational models that provide unique, competitive value across our product portfolio.
• Conduct innovative research in generative AI to improve model capabilities for networking automation and human-computer interaction.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers and strategists to integrate research breakthroughs into tangible business solutions.
• Establish Cisco as a global thought leader by publishing research in top-tier AI venues and contributing to the broader scientific community.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's in computer science + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience.
• Experience with LLM pre-training and post-training experience within an industry or academic research lab.
• Minimum of 3 publications within top AI Venues such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, ICML, NAACL, NeurIPS.
• Experience working with Machine Learning Models (MLMs) and familiarity with associated frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, or equivalent platforms.
• Prior experience driving research projects within an industry or university research lab (full-time, internship, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

• Interest in combining representation learning and problem-specific properties.
• Experience in building, fine-tuning foundation models including LLMs and multi-modal models or domain-specific models.
• Ability to maintain cutting-edge knowledge in generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and multi-modal models and apply these technologies innovatively to emerging business problems, use cases, and scenarios.
• Outstanding communication, interpersonal, relationship-building skills conducive to collaboration.

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.
• Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time).
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

Salary range: $203,000.00 to $258,600.00

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