Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco Validated
About The Position
Join Cisco Validated, the team responsible for turning Cisco's integrated technology strategy into field-credible, evidence-backed proof. Cisco Validated has long helped customers, partners, and field teams deploy with confidence through tested designs, deployment guidance, and validated architectures. As Cisco's portfolio becomes more integrated across networking, security, collaboration, AI, and resilience, the team is evolving to validate not only individual designs, but the cross-portfolio outcomes Cisco presents to the market. This team works across Business Unit product managers, TMEs, architects, field teams, and leadership to clarify what is real, what is repeatable, and what is ready for customers. The work spans lab validation, proof motions, reference architectures, technical findings, and field-facing assets that help sales and customers understand how Cisco technologies work better together. As a Technical Marketing Engineer on the Cisco Validated team, you will help turn Cisco's One Cisco and Better Together strategy into field-credible technical proof. You will contribute to validation workstreams for integrated Cisco solutions, building and testing lab environments that reflect real customer scenarios and help determine what is repeatable, supportable, and ready for the field. You will work with Sr. TMEs, mid-level TMEs, Business Unit TMEs, architects, field teams, and Cisco Validated peers to execute test plans, capture evidence, troubleshoot issues, and translate technical findings into documentation inputs and proof assets. You will be expected to learn quickly, stay adaptable through technical ambiguity, and build confidence moving validation tasks from test plan to credible proof. You will also develop broader technical fluency across the Cisco portfolio, learn repeatable validation practices, and grow toward larger validation workstream ownership over time.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field and 7+ years of hands-on industry experience
- 2+ years of hands-on experience testing, troubleshooting, supporting, or deploying networking, security, cloud, collaboration, or data center technologies.
- Experience following test plans, capturing evidence, documenting findings, and communicating technical results.
Nice To Haves
- Working knowledge of the Cisco portfolio, with hands-on experience across one or more Cisco technologies and a basic understanding of how Cisco products integrate into broader customer architectures.
- Strong foundational networking knowledge, including routing, switching, wireless, security, cloud connectivity, segmentation, policy, observability, or related infrastructure concepts.
- Foundational awareness of AI infrastructure concepts, such as data center connectivity, workload placement, high-performance networking, or secure AI architecture.
- Exposure to validating, designing, deploying, or supporting integrated solutions in lab, field, customer, partner, or systems engineering environments.
- Ability to document and communicate technical findings clearly, with growing confidence presenting validation results.
- Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, stay adaptable, and remain effective in ambiguous technical environments.
- Strong curiosity, initiative, and willingness to build technical breadth across Cisco's portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Secure networking, routing, switching, wireless, segmentation, policy, assurance, observability, secure access, identity, firewall, VPN, and zero trust concepts.
- Cloud, data center, AI infrastructure, workload connectivity, high-performance fabrics, and hybrid cloud architectures.
- Collaboration platforms, user experience, application behavior, and integrated workflow considerations.
- Digital resilience, operational continuity, telemetry, troubleshooting, incident readiness, and repeatable recovery patterns.
- Lab validation methods, performance testing, interoperability testing, evidence capture, and technical documentation.
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
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
