Cisco

Senior AI Researcher, AISWP (Hybrid)

Cisco • $203K — $258K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in computer science + 7 years of related experience, or Master's + 4 years, or PhD + 1 year of related experience
  • Experience with LLM pre-training and post-training in industry or academic research
  • Minimum of 3 publications in top AI venues (ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, ICML, NAACL, NeurIPS)
  • Familiarity with Machine Learning Models and frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Hugging Face
  • Experience driving research projects in industry or university settings

Responsibilities

  • Produce research advances in Generative AI for networking automation and human-computer interaction
  • Build purpose-built large language models to enhance Cisco's networking and security infrastructure
  • Drive pre-training initiatives for foundational models that add competitive value
  • Conduct innovative research to improve model capabilities
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate research into business solutions
  • Establish Cisco as a thought leader by publishing in top-tier AI venues

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model based in Seattle or San Jose
  • Opportunity to publish and present research at global venues
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and resources
  • Engagement in a thought leadership role within the AI community
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 10/29/2026
This is a hybrid role based out of Cisco's Seattle or San Jose office.

Your Impact

As an Senior AI Researcher, you will produce research advances in the field of Generative AI that improve the capabilities of models or agents for networking automation, human-computer interaction, model safety, or other strategic gen-AI powered networking areas. You will research building domain-specific foundational representations relevant to networking, etc. that provide differentiative value across diverse sets of applications. You will be a thought leader in the global research community via publishing papers, giving technical talks, organizing workshops etc.

  • Help build purpose-built large language models to secure and optimize Cisco's proprietary networking, security, data center, and observability infrastructure.
  • Drive pre-training initiatives to build foundational models that provide unique, competitive value across our product portfolio.
  • Conduct innovative research in generative AI to improve model capabilities for networking automation and human-computer interaction.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers and strategists to integrate research breakthroughs into tangible business solutions.
  • Establish Cisco as a global thought leader by publishing research in top-tier AI venues and contributing to the broader scientific community.

Minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's in computer science + 7 years of related experience, or Masters + 4years of related experience, or PhD + 1 years of related experience,
  • Experience with LLM pre-training and post training experience within an industry or academic research lab and
  • Minimum of 3 publications within top AI Venues such as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, ICML, NAACL, NeurIPS
  • Experience working with Machine Learning Models (MLMs) and familiarity with associated frameworks, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, or equivalent platforms
  • Prior experience driving research projects within an industry or university research lab (full-time, internship etc.)


Preferred qualifications

  • Interest in combining representation learning and problem-specific properties
  • Experience in building, fine-tuning foundation models including LLMs and multi-modal models or domain specific models
  • Ability to maintain cutting-edge knowledge in generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and multi-modal models and apply these technologies innovatively to emerging business problems, use cases, and scenarios
  • Outstanding communication, interpersonal, relationship building skills conducive to collaboration

About Cisco

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