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Senior Technical Marketing Engineer and Technical Leader

Cisco Milpitas, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$194,600 - $285,700 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer and Technical Leader to join our team. As a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer and Technical Leader, you will serve as the primary technical authority for our AI infrastructure platform, bridging the gap between sophisticated engineering development and customer-facing deployment.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, implement, and maintain reference architectures and validated deployment patterns for AI-driven cloud infrastructure.
  • Operate full-stack lab environments to validate Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 workflows, including automation, scaling, and security controls.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product management to identify product gaps, resolve adoption blockers, and define technical readiness criteria.
  • Produce technical assets such as white papers, deployment guides, demonstration videos, and workshops to enable internal field teams and external partners.
  • Represent the product and technical strategy in customer workshops, executive briefings, and strategic industry forums.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering + 12 years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree + 8 years of professional experience.
  • Experience in technical marketing, solutions architecture, systems engineering, or platform/site reliability engineering.
  • Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters in production or production-like environments, including container orchestration, networking, and storage integrations.
  • Experience developing infrastructure automation using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go) or infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
  • Experience creating and delivering technical presentations or documentation, such as white papers, deployment guides, or architectural design reviews, for technical audiences.
  • Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, specifically managing GPU clusters, model training pipelines, or AI-workload placement within Kubernetes.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Technical knowledge of high-performance networking technologies including RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), lossless Ethernet, or low-latency data center fabrics.
  • Experience with public or private cloud platform services, including multi-tenancy, identity and access management, and observability frameworks.
  • Operational experience with performance benchmarking.
  • Experience working in agile, rapid-growth environments where product requirements and technical priorities evolve continuously.

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: $194,600.00 - $285,700.00

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)
  • Lossless Ethernet
  • Low-latency data center fabrics
  • Public or private cloud platform services
  • Performance benchmarking
  • Agile environments
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