Software Engineer

The AI Platforms and Enablement team at Cisco is looking for a Software Engineer to contribute to building and scaling CIRCUIT, a universal enterprise AI platform. As a Software Engineer, you will focus on building high-performance data pipelines, search infrastructure, and agentic components that power AI capabilities.

You will be responsible for:

• Building and optimising robust data ingestion pipelines using Dataflow (Apache Beam)
• Implementing and tuning Elasticsearch configurations
• Developing re-ranking algorithms and improving relevancy measurements
• Building and refining AI Agents
• Deploying and managing services on GCP using Kubernetes
• Working directly with LLMs to implement RAG pipelines

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in professional software engineering
• 2+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating Elasticsearch in a production environment
• Demonstrated experience delivering production-grade software in a cloud environment using Kubernetes
• Proven proficiency in Python and building robust data pipelines using Dataflow (Apache Beam)

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience designing and implementing hybrid search architectures
• Exposure to MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools
• Strong analytical ability to understand and measure relevancy
• Proven experience building and consuming REST APIs

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Paid time away
• Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary range: $128,600.00 to $184,900.00