# Software Engineer Data & AI I (Intern) – United States

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: internship
**Salary**: $44,000.00 - $185,000.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Cisco Product Internship Program offers a 12-week summer experience designed to welcome early-career talent into this mission. You’ll build data pipelines and machine learning workflows together, using Python to power real-world products. You’ll develop, train, and deploy models using frameworks like PyTorch or scikit-learn, and orchestrate large-scale data solutions using tools like Spark and Kubernetes.

**Minimum Qualifications**

- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program (Associate's or Bachelor's).

- Qualifying education should be in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.

- Expected to continue enrollment in degree program following completion of the internship.

- Proficient in Python and core data structures, demonstrated through at least one academic, personal, or professional project

- Exposure to at least one ML framework: TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn

- Working knowledge of at least one big data/distributed processing tool: Spark, Hadoop (MapReduce), or Flink

- Hands-on experience with at least one deployment/orchestration tool: Docker or Kubernetes

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience deploying or productionizing a trained ML model, beyond coursework-level training and evaluation

- Exposure to at least one cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

- Understanding of at least two of: scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, or data consistency

- Working knowledge of at least two of: load balancing, consensus algorithms, or inter-service communication

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- Spark
- Hadoop
- Flink
- Docker
- Kubernetes

### Nice to have
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud

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