Gen AI Senior Software Engineer

Cisco

Confirmed live today High trust
Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
RTP, NCAustin, TX
Salary
$169,800–$214,800 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
4 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Dec 31, 2026

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $170k
This role $192k
$108k $232k
below market most similar roles pay here above market

This role pays more than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$191,500 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $192k versus about $170k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

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

Cisco currently has 307 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $167,700–$245,000 across 224 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Cisco

At a glance

TL;DR · Gen AI Senior Software Engineer

The Gen AI Senior Software Engineer joins the Enterprise Data & Platforms team within the Cisco IT organization. In this role, you will lead the development, deployment, and management of Generative AI applications and services, specifically focusing on Retrieval Augmented Generation and Agentic AI. Your daily responsibilities include designing scalable frameworks for on-premise and cloud environments, architecting secure workflows for document processing, and optimizing model hyperparameters. You will implement robust data security, encryption, and access control protocols while integrating responsible AI practices like toxicity screening and bias detection. Technical requirements include proficiency in Python, containerized distributed applications, DevOps, and CI/CD tools. You must have hands-on experience with frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, and LangSmith, as well as vector databases like Weaviate, Pinecone, or Milvus.

What you'll do

  • Design, develop, deploy, and optimize high-performance, scalable Generative AI frameworks for on-premise and cloud environments.
  • Architect secure workflows for end-to-end document processing, including ingestion, classification, retrieval, and automated fine-tuning pipelines.
  • Implement robust data security, encryption, and access control protocols to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
  • Optimize model architecture and hyperparameters to achieve superior performance and address scalability challenges.
  • Integrate responsible AI practices, including toxicity screening, bias detection, and ethical auditing, for safe model deployment.
  • Monitor and maintain AI infrastructure with real-time alerting to ensure system stability and performance.
  • Stay current with advancements in Generative AI, document security, and ethical AI development to drive continuous infrastructure improvement.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field with 10 years of related experience.
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related STEM field with 7 years of related experience.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in Gen AI engineering on production use cases.
  • Proficiency in Python programming language or similar.
  • Proficiency in software engineering best practices, containerized large-scale distributed applications, DevOps, and CI/CD tools.
  • Hands-on experience with Gen AI frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, LangSmith, and AI operators.
  • Experience with vector databases such as Weaviate, Pinecone, Milvus, or similar.
  • Experience with design and development of advanced Agentic AI workflows orchestration (preferred).

More like this

Similar roles

Senior Generative AI Engineer

Citi

New York, NY 18 days ago $142,320–$213,480
Generative AI LLMs Python LangChain LangGraph RAG OpenShift CI/CD Transformer Architectures Agentic Frameworks Distributed Systems Data Structures Algorithms Copilot Devin
6+ yrs exp Hybrid

AI Software Engineer, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton

Honolulu, HI 39 days ago $86,900–$198,000
Python Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) LangChain AWS Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Agentic Workflows Data Pipelines Asynchronous Programming Event-Driven Design Observability Serverless Embeddings Automated Testing
3+ yrs exp

Senior Software Engineer AI

Blackline

Pleasanton, CA +2 99 days ago
Python PySpark TensorFlow PyTorch scikit-learn Kubernetes Docker MLflow Kubeflow Airflow Vertex AI LangChain LangGraph AWS GCP Azure CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Newrelic Java Scala Bash Fivetran Plaid CDC IaC
Hybrid

GenAI Tech Senior Lead

Citi

Tampa, FL +1 33 days ago $141,440–$212,160
Generative AI Agentic AI LLMs RAG Knowledge Graphs LangChain LlamaIndex LangGraph CrewAI Autogen Hugging Face AWS Kubernetes Docker CI/CD MLOps LLMOps Neo4j ArangoDB OpenTelemetry RESTful APIs Git NLP Prompt Engineering Context Engineering
10+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior AI Software Engineer

T. Rowe Price

Owings Mills, MD 28 days ago $121,000–$206,000
AI Engineering Agentic AI AWS Salesforce Python Java JavaScript Azure Containerized Microservices Prompt Engineering APIs Cloud-Native Architectures Automated Testing
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior AI Software Engineer

Allstate

Remote (MN) 14 days ago $90,700–$153,925
Python Java Spring Boot Node.js FastAPI Generative AI LLMs LangChain RAG Agentic AI Microsoft Azure AWS Kubernetes Docker CI/CD MLOps MongoDB DocumentDB SQL Server Kafka React Angular RESTful APIs Microservices Prompt Engineering Vector Databases
Remote