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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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JOB TITLE: Principal Machine Learning Engineer, AISWP (Hybrid)
The Principal Machine Learning Engineer joins the AI Platform Group within the Office of the CTO as a Forward Deployed Engineer. This role involves embedding directly into high-impact customer environments to observe complex workflows, identify friction points, and build rapid prototypes to validate product-market fit for AI-native portfolios. You will lead research-to-code initiatives, translating complex customer challenges into scalable software solutions while ensuring prototypes are ready for production hardening. Key responsibilities include architecting secure, multi-tenant services and influencing product strategy through verified usage metrics. Required expertise includes building scalable, highly distributed systems with strict security boundaries, implementing complex authorization models like RBAC and ABAC, and utilizing spec-driven development with strongly typed API contracts. You will solve real-world networking and security problems within a customer-led skunkworks model.
What does a Machine Learning Engineer earn in California?
Median $231150 from 187 postings across 27 companies.
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