AI Solutions Engineer - GES West

Cisco • Rancho Cordova, CA

13d

About The Position

We are seeking a Solutions Engineer - Artificial Intelligence (AI) to join our dynamic sales team. In this role, you will drive the adoption of our AI infrastructure solutions across various industries. You will identify potential clients, understand their specific needs, and provide tailored solutions that enhance their business operations. This position requires a deep understanding of AI infrastructure technologies and experience in conveying technical concepts to a diverse audience.
You will build awareness, foster education, and drive enthusiasm for AI among internal team members, external partners, and other stakeholders. You will serve as a crucial link between technical teams, account teams, executives, and partners/customers. Additionally, you will showcase Cisco AI infrastructure solutions, highlighting their potential and promoting their tactical and technical benefits. You will play a vital role in the design, development, and promotion of AI solutions, addressing any challenges that arise. Travel will be required as needed to meet with clients and attend industry events.

Requirements

• 4+ years of technical pre-sales experience selling compute, storage, and network solutions or similar cloud-based AI infrastructure.
• Understanding and experience with AI/ML (Transformers, Deep Neural Networks, Reinforcement learning, ETL, Data Engineering, Data Processing PyTorch, Model Operations, AI Frameworks e.g. Langchain or similar)
• Understanding of hardware accelerators like GPUs and DPUs, including how they are utilized and sized to scale AI infrastructure.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field. An advanced degree is a plus.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to deliver engaging workshops on AI topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven soft skills such as teamwork, problem-solving, customer engagement and advocacy.
• Experience with AI solutions from vendors such as Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Dell, HPE, and other AI vendors.
• In-depth understanding of language models, including but not limited to GPT-3, LLaMA, BERT, or similar architectures.
• Experience in deploying large language models (LLMs) from Hugging Face in training, fine-tuning and distributed inferencing environments.
• Familiarity with popular AI frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow
• Experience with popular databases like Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB. AI vector databases like Chroma and AI data platforms like VAST
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) for scalable and efficient model deployment.

Responsibilities

• Drive the adoption of our AI infrastructure solutions across various industries.
• Identify potential clients, understand their specific needs, and provide tailored solutions that enhance their business operations.
• Build awareness, foster education, and drive enthusiasm for AI among internal team members, external partners, and other stakeholders.
• Serve as a crucial link between technical teams, account teams, executives, and partners/customers.
• Showcase Cisco AI infrastructure solutions, highlighting their potential and promoting their tactical and technical benefits.
• Play a vital role in the design, development, and promotion of AI solutions, addressing any challenges that arise.
• Travel will be required as needed to meet with clients and attend industry events.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• grants of Cisco restricted stock units
• 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, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s 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, and 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees