Machine Learning Engineering Technical Leader
About The Position
Outshift, Cisco’s incubation engine, is building the Internet of Cognition: a shared semantic layer that enables agents and humans to reason together. The team previously built AGNTCY, the open-source “Internet of Agents,” now stewarded by the Linux Foundation, and helped establish the Agentic AI Foundation alongside Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. The team values hands-on implementation, collaboration, and code-focused work. This is a senior individual-contributor role, not a management position. The engineer will help turn concepts such as shared context, shared intent, and coordinated reasoning across distributed agents into scalable, production-grade systems. The role involves driving technical decisions, building hands-on solutions, and supporting other engineers through technical leadership, mentorship, and strong engineering practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree plus 12 years of related experience, or a master’s degree plus 8 years of related experience, or a Ph.D. plus 5 years of related experience.
- 8+ years of experience building and owning production software and machine learning systems from development through deployment and ongoing support.
- Experience developing in Python across the full technology stack, from high-level agent logic to underlying systems and infrastructure.
- Experience with large language models (LLMs) and agentic frameworks such as LangChain/LangGraph, AutoGen, or similar.
- Experience working in open-source codebases, contributing code, and participating in peer code reviews to maintain code quality and engineering standards.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building with emerging agent protocols such as MCP, A2A, or AGENTS.md.
- Contributions to influential open-source ecosystems, including Linux Foundation and CNCF projects.
- Deep networking and security knowledge.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable, production-grade systems for shared context, shared intent, and coordinated reasoning across distributed agents.
- Drive technical decisions and develop hands-on engineering solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.
- Apply strong engineering practices to production software and machine learning systems from development through deployment and ongoing support.
- Contribute to open-source codebases and participate in peer code reviews.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution
- Paid parental leave
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Basic life insurance
- Paid holidays
- Floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- Paid day off for employee’s birthday
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- Paid personal wellness days
- Paid vacation time for non-exempt employees
- Flexible vacation time off program for eligible exempt employees
- Sick time off
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional paid volunteer days
- Annual bonuses for eligible non-sales roles
- Employees may be eligible for Cisco restricted stock unit grants
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
