Tech Lead – AI/ML Infrastructure Engineer

Tech Lead – AI/ML Infrastructure Engineer

Location: San Jose, California, US

Compensation Range: 173100 USD - 241700 USD

Job Type: Professional

Application window is expected to close on 09/06/2024.

Who We Are:

The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads and continuously increasing internet users and application.

Who You’ll Work With:

You will be working among engineers who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies. You will be part of a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support.

Who You Are:

You are curious and a problem solver. You love to learn and grow and work in an environment that is constantly evolving. You are a self-starter that thrives on learning information quickly and uses resources to research and resolve issues. You are willing and able to work with multi-disciplinary, multicultural, and geographically dispersed teams. This is the role for you if you consider yourself a technologist at heart and with:

• Experience with Network Operating Systems and in System and Software Qualification
• Diligent with an automation first approach and experience with scripting languages and test frameworks
• Passionate about open-source development and contribution

What You’ll Do:

As a Tech Lead for AI/ML Test Engineering, you'll lead an agile team engaged in the design, development and execution of tests to qualify network performance for AI/ML capability. In this role you’ll have opportunity to:

• Build out testing environment for system/solution validation
• Develop and enhance test framework and benchmarking tools
• Define and gather data for network performance benchmarking
• Understand and troubleshoot customer issues

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering + 8 years of experience building network and test automation, or Masters + 6 years of related experience, or PhD + 3 years of related experience
• 3+ years' experience configuring, debugging networking systems and solutions
• 3+ years’ experience using scripting languages including Python

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with test frameworks, and traffic generators (commercial & open-source)
• Exposure to network operating systems, preferably SONiC
• Knowledge of control & data plane technologies including L2, L3, VXLAN, segment Routing and/or MPLS
• Exposure to RDMA, HPC networks
• Knowledge of RoCE and Infini band protocols
• Hands on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools

Why Cisco?

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