# Solutions Engineer-Hyperscale and AI Infrastructure

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: Richardson, Texas
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $209,100.00 to $275,100.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the Emerging AI & Cloud team at Cisco, working with AI platform and infrastructure customers. As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will lead technical engagements, driving innovative solutions that fuel customer growth.

Key expertise that will amplify your impact include:

- Designing AI, Service Provider, and Data Center networks at scale

- Expertise in AI back-end and front-end network designs, including compute, storage, and optics

- Proficiency with Cisco IOS-XR, NX-OS, or equivalent operating systems

- Experience with open-source NOS such as SONiC

- Deep knowledge of routing protocols, including BGP, MPLS, EVPN, and Segment Routing

- Knowledge of optical system design including Metro, RON, DWDM, and optics for data center environments

- Strong understanding of silicon architecture, ASICs, and system designs

- Familiarity with AI workloads, large language models (LLM), and MLOps tools

- Automation tooling and scripting skills

- Ability to establish trust and credibility through technical excellence

- Linking architectural vision to account strategy

- Staying current on AI industry trends and changes

- Lead the strategy and planning of demand generation and enablement initiatives

- Identify customer needs and showcase cross-architecture solutions

- Lead demonstrations that emphasize how Cisco solutions can drive business outcomes

- Mobilize a broad network of stakeholders to drive transformative synergies and optimize customer relationships

- Demonstrate agility by adjusting strategies in response to disruptions

Minimum Qualifications:

- 8+ years of experience in technical sales or customer engagement, with expertise in data center networking, service provider markets

- Deep technical expertise in Service Provider architectures, including Data Center, Route/Switch, AI-Ready Networking, and Automation

- Strong technical expertise in Cisco solutions or equivalent competitor products

Preferred Qualifications:

- Excellent communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills with a customer-focused mindset

- Self-motivated and proactive, with the ability to build strong customer relationships and effectively articulate Cisco’s product portfolio

- 10+ years of hands-on experience adapting and delivering results in high-velocity, advanced technology environments

- In-depth knowledge of Compute, Optical is desirable

- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent;

- CCIE certification is desirable

- Experience selling solutions to AI platform & infrastructure customers

- Proven track record in pre-sales with a growth mindset and ability to work independently

- Coding or software development experience is a significant plus

- Experience with SONiC is highly advantageous

- Comprehensive understanding of Cisco, competitors, technologies, solutions, and market dynamics

- Ability to navigate complex technical and sales situations and effectively resolve challenges or escalate as needed

The starting salary range posted for this position is $209,100.00 to $275,100.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation, equity, or benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- Service Provider
- Data Center
- Cisco IOS-XR
- NX-OS
- SONiC
- BGP
- MPLS
- EVPN
- Segment Routing
- Optical system design
- Silicon architecture
- ASICs
- System designs
- Automation tooling
- Scripting

### Nice to have
- Communication
- Presentation
- Problem-solving
- Compute
- Optical
- Electrical engineering
- Computer Science
- CCIE certification
- Coding
- Software development

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