# AI Researcher

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $184,000.00 - $274,600.00
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Foundation AI, part of Cisco, we are leading frontier AI research. Our mission is to advance the state of AI and translate that research into purpose-built models, agentic systems, new algorithms, optimisation methods, and scalable data processing techniques that solve real-world problems at scale.

As an AI Researcher, you will work on the research, development, and deployment of advanced AI systems. Your focus will span large language models, agentic AI, multimodal learning, and enterprise-scale AI applications. We are looking for researchers who will help translate frontier research into practical systems by designing experiments, developing new methods, and turning research insights into impactful, scalable AI solutions.

In this role, you will:

- Develop scalable data curation and processing methods that improve model training and task-specific performance.

- Build production-ready AI systems using strong software engineering practices.

- Optimise large language models and agentic systems for enterprise and security-focused use cases.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelors + 5 years of related experience, or Masters + 3 years of related experience, or PhD + 0 years of related experience in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.

- Strong experience with Python, PyTorch, production-grade software engineering practices, and common AI/ML libraries.

- Experience with large language models, model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, inference, and optimisation.

- Strong understanding of data pipelines, model experimentation, and scalable AI system design.

- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex research and engineering concepts to cross-functional partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience designing scalable data curation methods and building reliable infrastructure for large-scale model training, evaluation, inference, and deployment.

- Experience deploying high-performance inference engines such as vLLM, NVIDIA Triton, or TorchServe, and working with cloud-native deployment, Docker, Kubernetes, MLOps pipelines, and major cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

- Demonstrated history of publishing research in top-tier AI/ML conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or ACL, or contributing to significant open-source AI projects.

- Experience designing and scaling agentic AI workflows, multi-agent frameworks, and autonomous AI systems.

- Familiarity with cybersecurity principles, AI systems for security-focused use cases, safety, and robust machine learning.

The salary range for this position varies by location. For example:

- New York City Metro Area: $184,000.00 - $274,600.00

- Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $168,000.00 - $244,300.00

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- PyTorch
- AI/ML libraries
- large language models
- data pipelines
- scalable AI system design
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- scalable data curation methods
- reliable infrastructure
- high-performance inference engines
- cloud-native deployment
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- MLOps pipelines
- cybersecurity principles
- agentic AI workflows
- multi-agent frameworks
- autonomous AI systems

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