# Senior AI Researcher

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Seattle or San Jose
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $203,000.00 to $258,600.00
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Cisco AI Research team is a dynamic group of scientists and engineers dedicated to building the future of proprietary intelligence. As a Senior AI Researcher, you will produce research advances in the field of Generative AI that improve the capabilities of models or agents for networking automation, human-computer interaction, model safety, or other strategic gen-AI powered networking areas.

Responsibilities:

- Help build purpose-built large language models to secure and optimize Cisco’s proprietary networking, security, data center, and observability infrastructure.

- Drive pre-training initiatives to build foundational models that provide unique, competitive value across our product portfolio.

- Conduct innovative research in generative AI to improve model capabilities for networking automation and human-computer interaction.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers and strategists to integrate research breakthroughs into tangible business solutions.

- Establish Cisco as a global thought leader by publishing research in top-tier AI venues and contributing to the broader scientific community.

Minimum qualifications:

- Bachelor's in computer science + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4 years of related experience, or PhD + 1 year of related experience.

- Experience with LLM pre-training and post-training experience within an industry or academic research lab.

- 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, Hugging Face, or equivalent platforms.

- Prior experience driving research projects within an industry or university research lab (full-time, internship, etc.).

Preferred qualifications:

- 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.

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 (vacation, holidays, sick time).

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer.

Salary range: $203,000.00 to $258,600.00

## Skills

### Required
- Large Language Models
- Machine Learning Models
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face

### Nice to have
- representation learning
- foundation models
- multi-modal models
- generative AI

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