# Software Engineer

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

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## Description

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Cisco Silicon One Software team. The team develops a comprehensive SDK software stack that enables high-performance silicon products across global networks.

Your role will involve designing and building AI-powered document query and knowledge-retrieval systems, developing user-facing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and agentic tools, automating engineering workflows, and integrating AI capabilities.

Responsibilities:

- Design and build AI-powered document query and knowledge-retrieval systems.

- Develop user-facing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and agentic tools.

- Automate engineering workflows and integrate AI capabilities.

- Create specialized AI models and developer utilities for networking domains.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field with 4+ years of software development experience; OR Master's degree with 3+ years of software development experience.

- Experience working with one or more of the following: cloud platforms, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, and source-control workflows.

- Experience building or integrating AI tool-calling architectures and protocols.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with agent frameworks and LLM tool-calling architectures.

- Hands-on experience with vector databases and semantic search / RAG pipelines.

- Familiarity with OpenAI/Anthropic model APIs, open-source model inference platforms, model request routing, or LLM fine-tuning techniques.

- Domain knowledge in networking technologies, switch telemetry analysis, network simulation environments, or P4 programming.

The starting salary range for this position is $167,700.00 to $245,200.00. U.S. employees are offered benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.

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## Skills

### Required
- cloud platforms
- containerization
- CI/CD pipelines
- source-control workflows
- AI tool-calling architectures

### Nice to have
- agent frameworks
- LLM tool-calling architectures
- vector databases
- semantic search
- OpenAI/Anthropic model APIs

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