# Software Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: RTP, North Carolina
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $128,600.00 to $184,900.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

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## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Dataflow (Apache Beam)
- Elasticsearch
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- LLMs

### Nice to have
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- AI-assisted development tools
- REST APIs
- hybrid search architectures

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