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About Cisco
Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity
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Listed pay typically runs
$167,700–$245,200
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As an AI Researcher on the AI Platform Team, you will join a collaborative group of researchers, data scientists, and engineers to transform cutting-edge research into production solutions for internal business units and external customers. You will be responsible for taking methods from paper and prototype into production models on NeuralFabric, specifically focusing on domain models, reinforcement learning, and agent simulation. Your daily work involves designing, training, and fine-tuning Small Language Models for network, security, observability, and operations problems using post-training techniques like LoRA, QLoRA, PEFT, and instruction tuning. You will utilize Python and deep learning frameworks including PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or Hugging Face Transformers. The role addresses the technical challenge of building trustworthy, scalable AI infrastructure while developing reusable training recipes and evaluation methods for multi-modal models and agent simulation systems.
Large Language Models
PyTorch
Reinforcement Learning
Distributed Training
Generative AI
Agentic Frameworks
Pre-training
Inference Pipelines
Context Engineering
Networking
Cybersecurity
Data Center Infrastructure