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