# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Bangalore
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Splunk Agent Resilience team at Cisco is defining the future of AI resilience. As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you'll work at the intersection of software engineering, customer engagement, and product innovation to help large enterprises deploy AI into production.

Your Impact:

- Partner with enterprise customers to understand technical requirements and business goals.

- Design scalable AI solution architectures and guide customers through production deployments.

- Build integrations, prototypes, and reusable tools that accelerate customer success.

- Lead technical workshops, architecture discussions, and troubleshoot complex production issues.

- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to share customer feedback and influence future product enhancements.

- Create documentation, reusable best practices, and technical assets that benefit future deployments.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).

- 4+ years of strong software engineering experience building production-grade applications.

- Experience with APIs, distributed systems, cloud platforms, or backend development.

- Hands-on experience with AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, cursor, etc.

- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across multiple layers of the technology stack.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work directly with enterprise customers.

- Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

- Interest in AI, Machine Learning, or developer platforms.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience deploying or supporting Generative AI, LLM, or Machine Learning applications in production.

- Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, observability, or MLOps.

- Experience building customer-facing technical solutions or integrations.

- Experience creating reusable developer tools, frameworks, or open-source contributions.

- Consulting, Solutions Engineering, or Technical Customer Success experience in enterprise environments.

- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, etc.

## Skills

### Required
- software engineering
- AI tools
- troubleshooting
- problem-solving
- communication skills
- APIs
- distributed systems
- cloud platforms
- backend development

### Nice to have
- Generative AI
- LLM
- Machine Learning
- Kubernetes
- cloud infrastructure
- observability
- MLOps
- Python
- Java

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