Why You’ll Love Cisco
Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more meaningful than ever before in our lives. Our employees' groundbreaking ideas impact everything. Here, that means we take creative ideas from the drawing board to build dynamic solutions that have real world impact. You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You'll be part a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you'll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired.
What You’ll Do
Your primary role is to produce research advances in the field of AI that improve the capabilities of models or agents for code generation, networking, human-computer interaction, model safety, or other strategic areas. You will research building domain-specific foundational representations relevant to networking, etc. that provide value across diverse sets of applications.You will be a thought leader in the global research community via publishing papers, giving technical talks, organizing workshops etc.
Who You’ll Work With
You will join a newly formed, dynamic AI team as one of the early members, and have the opportunity to influence the culture and direction of the growing team. Our team includes AI experts and networking domain experts who work together and learn from each other. We work closely with engineers, product managers and strategists who have deep expertise and experience in AI and/or distributed systems.
Who We Are
The Cisco Networking Engineering AI Research team consists of AI research scientists, data scientists, and network engineers with subject matter expertise who collaborate on both basic and applied research projects. We are motivated by tackling unique research challenges that arise when connecting people and devices at a world-wide scale.
Minimum qualifications
- PhD in Computer Science or a relevant technical field and 2+ years of experience within an industry or academic research lab or a Masters Degree and 6+ years of experience within an industry or academic research lab and a minimum of 3 publications within top AI Venues such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, ICML, NAACL, NeurIPS
- Experience working with Machine Learning Models (MLMs) and familiarity with associated frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or equivalent platforms
Preferred qualifications
- Experience driving research projects within an industry or university lab
- Interest in combining representation learning and problem-specific properties
- Experience in building, fine-tuning foundation models including LLMs and multi-modal models or domain specific models
- Ability to maintain cutting-edge knowledge in generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and multi-modal models and apply these technologies innovatively to emerging business problems, use cases, and scenarios
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to collaboration
- Experience working in an industrial research lab (full-time, internship, sabbatical, etc.)
Why Cisco?
#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!
Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data traveling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges, and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and sizes to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.
We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).
We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.
So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco
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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;
1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
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