Software Engineering Technical Leader | Enterprise AI Platforms, Infrastructure & Automation

Meet the Team In Cisco Enterprise AI Platforms & Infrastructure (EAIPI), our vision is to architect, build, and scale world-class agentic AI platforms, foundation infrastructure, and developer ecosystems that power Cisco's next generation of intelligent products and services. We are the engineering organization behind Cisco's flagship AI initiatives, including MyAgent (Cisco's super agent) and the Circuit Enterprise AI platform. Our high-velocity team operates at the intersection of frontier generative AI, distributed systems, GPU infrastructure, and modern software engineering. We build with a steadfast focus on engineering craftsmanship, high talent density, principled quality, and developer enablement—empowering thousands of engineers across Cisco to create, validate, and scale multimodal agentic experiences. Your Impact As a Software Engineering Technical Leader in Cisco EAIPI, you will serve as a multi-layered technical authority and system architect. You will design complete and complex frameworks, systems, and platforms that define specifications, interfaces, input/output pipelines, and working parameters for hardware and software compatibility. You will conceive innovative system interfaces and business application prototypes, analyze and eliminate architectural weaknesses, and directly influence the shaping of future products by establishing foundational architecture across multiple systems. Rooted in Cisco ‘Design Thinking Principles’, you will place simplification and User Experience (UX) at the core, championing secure coding practices, user privacy, and software engineering excellence. Partnering across product management, UX design, and multi-functional engineering teams, you will author architectural specifications and technical documentation, resolve critical production bottlenecks, drive product innovation, and continuously optimize software delivery pipelines. Responsibilities: Architectural Vision & Complex Problem Solving: Apply specialized technical mastery to solve intricate architectural problems, interpret internal and external business issues, and define industry-leading standard methodologies. Cross-Team Leadership & Project Governance: Lead multi-team engineering initiatives from inception through completion, leading workload, technical dependencies, and workstreams holistically. Technical Roadmap & Strategy: Shape, influence, and drive the multi-year software engineering roadmap, aligning technical architecture with core business and customer outcomes. High-Impact Feature & Framework Delivery: Lead the end-to-end design, implementation, and delivery of major architectural frameworks, critical platform subsystems, and high-impact features. Gold-Standard Code Craftsmanship: Author clean, robust, and highly optimized code and automated test suites that set the gold standard for engineering excellence across the organization.