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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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The Technical Project Manager – AI Research joins the Cisco Foundation AI team to advance foundational model development, evaluation, and engineering innovation. This role involves leading project scheduling, dependency mapping, and risk mitigation across complex AI research and engineering tracks. You will partner with researchers, infrastructure, and product teams to define technical requirements, manage release milestones for AI models and research papers, and oversee compliance reviews. Key responsibilities include building executive dashboards for operational reporting and integrating AI-assisted developer tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude Code, or Codex to automate workflows. The position requires expertise in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or advanced research environments. You will apply Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or Lean delivery frameworks to solve technical problems involving Large Language Models and high-performance compute clusters.
Lead project scheduling, dependency mapping, milestone delivery, and risk mitigation for AI research and engineering tracks.
Partner with research, engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to define project scope and technical requirements.
Oversee launch readiness for AI models, evaluation benchmarks, research papers, and open-source contributions.
Manage compliance reviews and documentation for all model and research releases.
Build dashboards and status reports to provide executive transparency into project health and resource allocation.
Integrate AI-assisted developer and workflow tools to automate documentation, reporting, and operational velocity.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or related field with 4+ years of technical project management experience.
Master’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
Prior experience managing technical projects within software engineering, AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, or advanced research organizations.
Applied background in end-to-end project planning, dependency management, milestone tracking, and cross-functional coordination across matrixed teams.
Hands-on experience utilizing AI-assisted developer and productivity tools to automate project workflows.
Previous experience supporting frontier AI research, LLMs, foundation model training, or high-performance compute clusters (preferred).
Practical background with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or Lean delivery frameworks in R&D environments (preferred).
Experience with technical procurement, cloud resource budgeting, vendor management, or developing executive dashboards (preferred).
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