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Forward Deployed Engineer

Cisco Bangalore Hybrid mid full-time

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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.

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