# Machine Learning Engineering Technical Leader **Company**: Cisco **Location**: Hyderabad, India **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/Hyderabad-India/Machine-Learning-Engineering-Technical-Leader_2027055-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_472f679f-97b ## Description Join Cisco's team that's advancing AI/ML capabilities by designing innovative algorithms and neural network architectures for natural language processing, machine perception, and Generative AI. You will drive the development of scalable, production-ready machine learning solutions that power Cisco's products and deliver measurable business impact. Responsibilities: - Analyse Cisco and external datasets to identify opportunities, formulate hypotheses, and translate business needs into feasible ML solutions. - Design and optimise advanced models using transformers, convolutional neural networks, knowledge distillation, student-teacher frameworks, GANs, and other emerging techniques. - Lead the exploration and adoption of state-of-the-art algorithms and architectures for complex, business-critical ML applications. - Establish technical vision and model design practices across functions and product portfolios, guiding teams toward scalable and reliable solutions. - Automate ML workflows spanning model selection, training, inference, and deployment to improve efficiency and performance. - Architect specialised data pipelines and optimisation techniques to enhance model training, accuracy, and computational efficiency. - Champion CI/CD-driven model integration, deployment, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement. Minimum Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree with 12+ years, Master's degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of relevant experience. - Strong expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and neural network architecture design for NLP, machine perception, or related applications. - Hands-on experience developing and optimising advanced ML models, including transformer-based and convolutional architectures, knowledge distillation, student-teacher models, and GANs. - Proficiency in model training, inference optimisation, data preparation, and specialised data-splitting strategies. - Experience automating ML workflows, improving model performance, and addressing scalability, efficiency, and reliability challenges. Preferred Qualifications: - Demonstrated technical leadership in shaping system architecture and mentoring engineers on ML platforms and cloud-native best practices. - Strong systems-thinking skills to balance model quality, scalability, reliability, latency, and cost in production environments. - Proven ability to evaluate emerging AI/ML approaches and translate research into scalable, production-ready solutions. - Passion for staying current with advancements in AI/ML, Generative AI, and next-generation model architectures. ## Skills ### Required - machine learning - deep learning - neural network architecture design - NLP - machine perception - transformers - convolutional neural networks - knowledge distillation - GANs ### Nice to have - technical leadership - system architecture - cloud-native best practices - AI/ML approaches - Generative AI --- Source: [Apply at cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://cisco.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cisco_Careers/job/Hyderabad-India/Machine-Learning-Engineering-Technical-Leader_2027055-1?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)