Principal Ai/ml Engineer

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**Who We Are**

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.

**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.

**The Impact You’ll Make**

If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your thoughtful ideas come to life, and the pride in helping grow a best-in-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 scientist, other engineers and to identify and implement the most effective 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 model.

Mentor and lead technical team to develop and deliver Generative AI products.

**Minimum Requirements**

Understanding and hands on experience in Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Computer vision, Image Processing, and other generative AI techniques.

15+ years engineering experience with a consistent track record of developing and delivering complex, distributed, enterprise class software, and create successful business outcomes.

8+ years programming experience in Java, C++, Python or other related languages.

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or related fields.

**Preferred Requirements**

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

Highly driven leader that is known to deliver in high growth and highly dynamic environments.

Ability to lead and mentor engineers globally, be an advocate for creative technical trends. Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving challenges and ensuring follow through.

Extraordinarily resourceful & rigorous, you can operate successfully among forward-thinking and charismatic people.

Equally 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 celebrat