Solutions Engineer

Cisco • San Jose, CA

1d • $223,000 - $330,300 • Remote

About The Position

Join our best-in-class pre-sales engineering team dedicated to driving co-development engagements with one of the world's most influential hyper-scale cloud providers. You will collaborate closely with customer stakeholders and business unit leaders and architects to address the unique, challenging demands of a global-scale customer environment. Our team culture thrives on creativity, teamwork and continuous improvement, focusing on advancing systems through innovative network architectures. This role offers the exciting opportunity to influence Cisco’s next-generation Hardware and Software roadmaps and bridge the gap between complex customer requirements and cutting-edge engineering solutions.

Serve as a bridge consolidating and driving design alignment between Google datacenter’s engineering leadership and technical architects and Cisco’s silicon/systems and SONIC software teams to address the unique, challenging demands of AI through innovative network architectures.
Translate complex customer requirements into precise engineering-specific documents to drive feature planning and product development. Analyze and prioritize technical data for customer reviews to ensure solutions are grounded in performance and reliability. Design innovative system improvements by identifying process patterns, ultimately boosting customer confidence in Cisco's execution plan and solution deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of related experience OR a Master’s with 6+ years OR a PhD with 3+ years
• Ability to build relevant customer relationships and strong communication skills in making sophisticated simple
• Practical knowledge of network architecture spanning software and hardware
• Experience with Routing Protocols (BGP, Segment Routing), QoS, and MPLS
• Proficiency in Network Operating Systems such as SONIC and/or IOS-XR

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with AI Datacenter front-end and back-end design concepts
• Highly organized
• Experience working with Linux or BSD systems
• Experience with network automation using Python or Golang
• Experience with Netconf, YANG, or OpenConfig data models
• Proven ability to perform technical presentations and demonstrations for internal and external audiences
• Experience coordinating and prioritizing detailed data for large-scale customer reviews
• Creative problem-solving skills with a focus on system and process optimization

Responsibilities

• Serve as a bridge consolidating and driving design alignment between Google datacenter’s engineering leadership and technical architects and Cisco’s silicon/systems and SONIC software teams to address the unique, challenging demands of AI through innovative network architectures.
• Translate complex customer requirements into precise engineering-specific documents to drive feature planning and product development.
• Analyze and prioritize technical data for customer reviews to ensure solutions are grounded in performance and reliability.
• Design innovative system improvements by identifying process patterns, ultimately boosting customer confidence in Cisco's execution plan and solution deliverables.

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
• Cisco restricted stock units
• 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
• 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
• paid year-end holiday shutdown
• 4 paid days off for personal wellness
• 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt)
• flexible vacation time off program (exempt)
• 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
• up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
• annual bonuses (non-sales roles)
• performance-based incentive pay (sales roles)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior