# Technical Leader

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $167,700.00 to $245,200.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The AI Platforms and Enablement team at Cisco is seeking a Technical Leader to lead a team of engineers in building the core infrastructure for their universal enterprise AI platform, CIRCUIT. The successful candidate will be responsible for the technical integrity of search pipelines, LLM integrations, and agentic workflows.

Key responsibilities include:

- Leading the design and implementation of high-scale data ingestion pipelines using Dataflow (Apache Beam) and Elasticsearch

- Implementing advanced re-ranking algorithms and refining relevancy metrics

- Designing and overseeing the development of AI Agents

- Ensuring AI capabilities are production-grade by managing deployments on Kubernetes (GCP)

- Acting as the primary technical point of contact for stakeholders

The ideal candidate will have:

- 7+ years of experience in software engineering

- 3+ years of hands-on experience designing and operating Elasticsearch in a production environment

- Proven experience in high-scale data engineering, search infrastructure, and building robust ingestion pipelines

- Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects from inception to production deployment

Preferred qualifications include expertise in hybrid search architectures, RAG systems, and AI-assisted development tools.

In terms of benefits, Cisco offers a range of perks, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, and short and long-term disability coverage.

The starting salary range for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00.

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## Skills

### Required
- Dataflow (Apache Beam)
- Elasticsearch
- Kubernetes (GCP)
- Search Science
- Generative AI
- Data Engineering

### Nice to have
- Hybrid search architectures
- RAG systems
- AI-assisted development tools
- MCP servers
- REST APIs

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