New 
Tech Lead, Developer Engineer - Cisco AI Software and Platform
 Cisco Systems, Inc. | |
paid time off
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 United States, California, Milpitas | |
 Aug 06, 2025 | |
| Application window open until further notice.NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.Who We Are The Cisco's AI team consists of AI researchers, and software developers who collaborate to build innovative products and platforms for Cisco. We are motivated by tackling unique challenges that arise when connecting people and devices at a world-wide scale. Who You'll Work With You will join a newly formed, dynamic AI team as one of the core members, and have the opportunity to influence the culture and direction of the growing team. Our team includes AI experts and distributed system experts who work together with our partners in products management, and engineers across a wide variety of other Cisco teams. We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our Agentic AI Team, where you will play a vital role in integrating AI services for our Generative AI products. Your skills in understanding service operations and architecting/building effective interfaces between service boundaries with the right instrumentation will be essential for the success of our product. Your role will involve understanding the operations of each AI service, designing and building interfaces that seamlessly connect these services, and ensuring the appropriate instrumentation is in place. Your work will be instrumental in delivering a powerful and effective solution to our customers. As a Front End Engineer, you will build an important bridge between developers and our AI Platform. Consider AI developers building AI Agents and exposing the skills through new AI protocols like MCP, A2A; you'll step into the developers' shoes, collaborating with our product and UX teams to craft intuitive and powerful tools to help our developers build powerful AI Agents and integrate with our platform. You will be working with a passionate, supportive, personal-growth-oriented team by your side. We can't wait to see where your imagination will take you! What you will do: Contribute to a high-performance AI Agent developer application. Craft data-rich visualizations to intuitively communicate how developers are using our platform. Work on initiatives to provide a delightful develper experience. Collaborate with UX designers and analyze user feedback to identify frictional workflows, then build tools to streamline those processes. Improve performance and efficiency of our front end, allowing us to handle increasingly large datasets with minimal delay. Build internal frameworks and refine front end infrastructure to augment developer productivity. Provide technical leadership to junior team members. You are an ideal candidate if you: Have 10+ years of experience in designing, developing, and testing enterprise-class web applications. Have 3+ years of experience in object-oriented programming with JavaScript, HTML/CSS/SASS, webpack, Node.js, React/Redux, or similar libraries and test frameworks such as Mocha. Take complete ownership from conception to production release by leveraging your ability to influence, facilitate, and work collaboratively across teams. Would thrive in a small engineering team and are excited to solve open-ended problems. Are passionate about what you do and ignite people around you. Bonus points for: Experience with Ruby on Rails, rspec, and Postgres. Knowledge of AI Agent protocols like MCP, A2A. Experience working with multi-modal user interfaces including images and video. Why Cisco? #WeAreCisco #WeAreCisco where every individual brings their unique skills and perspectives together to pursue our purpose of powering an inclusive future for all. 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! Our purpose, driven by our people, is what makes us the worldwide leader in technology that powers the internet. Helping our customers reimagine their applications, secure their enterprise, transform their infrastructure, and meet their sustainability goals is what we do best. We ensure that every step we take is a step towards a more inclusive future for all. Take your next step and be you, with us. #CiscoAIJobs | |