Director, Engineering (AI Team)

The Cisco AI Software & Platform Group incubates and delivers Generative AI based solutions to reinvent Cisco's existing Products and how customers interact with them. Our Group is also introducing new offerings that help customers roll out Generative AI at scale while doing so responsibly. Ultimately, we are doing so through internal platforms that unlock the benefits of this technology for Cisco teams and partners across our Security, Enterprise Networking, Collaboration and Splunk portfolios.

Cisco is seeking a Director of Engineering, AI to lead our new platform engineering team in the AI Software and Platforms group. This role will play a key role in developing AI-based solutions to ease management and operation of a variety of Cisco products. This is a brand-new initiative and will need the leader to take the team and platform from 0 to 1.

The Director will oversee a team of talented professionals focused on developing innovative solutions leveraging the cutting edge of AI technologies. The team will include front-end, backend and ML engineers.

• Build and lead the core platform team for AI applications.
• Own end to end delivery of platform capabilities that enable building applications at scale.
• Evaluate, perform due diligence, and select tools and technologies.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies and trends in AI and architecture, making informed decisions on technology adoption and investment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management and design.

• Demonstrable engineering leadership experience in cloud software development for enterprise platforms and preferably AI applications.
• 7+ years in a management role leading a team of software engineers.
• Bachelor's degree and equivalent 15+ years of engineering exp OR Master's degree and 12+ years of Engineering exp.

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to build and lead fast-paced teams.
• Experience leading Managers.
• Experience with platform development
• Experience building AI applications.
• Experience building front-end applications.
• Experience building developers experience services.
• Extraordinarily resourceful & thorough, you can operate successfully among forward-thinking people and equally comfortable leading design sessions with technologists as with business executives.

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