Software Engineering Technical Leader
About The Position
Cisco Node Visuals (CNV) builds interactive network and geographic visualizations for Cisco products, helping users understand enterprise network data across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. The engineering team combines expertise in GPU-accelerated graphics, mathematics, and algorithm development, and follows an InnerSource model to share code and develop reusable capabilities across Cisco organizations. Team members partner directly with product teams as forward-deployed engineers. The Software Engineering Technical Leader leads CNV architecture and delivery from design through deployment, building secure, reusable visualization capabilities for Cisco enterprise product teams. The role develops high-performance 2D and 3D network and geographic views for cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments that cannot rely on runtime access to external mapping services. It also advances algorithms for topology layout, rendering, aggregation, animation, navigation, and spatial interaction with large, dynamic datasets. The leader sets engineering standards, verifies performance through testing and benchmarks, guides technical priorities, mentors engineers, contributes hands-on, and influences product strategy and Cisco’s intellectual-property portfolio.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in any engineering discipline.
- 7+ years of frontend engineering experience architecting and delivering web applications, libraries, or frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with WebGL2, GPU-accelerated graphics, or comparable real-time rendering technologies.
Nice To Haves
- Experience developing mapping, GIS, geospatial analytics, or location-based visualization software using geographic coordinate systems, coordinate transformations, map projections, vector-map data, GeoJSON, polygon triangulation, and spatial indexing.
- Experience designing performance-critical algorithms and applying graph theory, linear algebra, computational geometry, and mathematical optimization.
- Experience with shader programming, graphics buffers, textures, batching, GPU resource management, and CPU, GPU, memory, and browser performance profiling.
- Experience building reusable visualization frameworks or developer-facing APIs, with familiarity with HTML Canvas, SVG, accessibility, and enterprise design systems.
- Experience owning technical architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading distributed or multidisciplinary teams through cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead CNV architecture and delivery from design through deployment.
- Build secure, reusable visualization capabilities adopted by Cisco enterprise product teams.
- Develop high-performance 2D and 3D network and geographic views for cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments without runtime access to external mapping services.
- Develop and optimize algorithms for topology layout, rendering, aggregation, animation, navigation, and spatial interaction for large, dynamic datasets.
- Set engineering standards and use tests and performance benchmarks to verify improvements in rendering speed, memory use, startup time, and interaction latency.
- Guide technical priorities, mentor engineers, and influence product strategy through hands-on development and technical reviews.
- Contribute to Cisco’s intellectual-property portfolio.
- Partner directly with product teams to solve network and geographic visualization challenges.
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
- Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, subject to continued employment and vesting terms
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- One floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- One paid day off for employees’ birthdays
- Paid year-end holiday shutdown
- Four paid personal wellness days
- Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation per full calendar year, accrued for full-time employees
- Exempt employees participate in a flexible vacation time-off program with no defined limit, subject to availability and business limitations
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire and each January 1, with up to 80 unused hours carried forward
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues
- Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year
- Annual bonuses may be available for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco policies
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
