Jobs at Cisco

Owns the technical product strategy for Cisco IQ ecosystem integrations. Identifies and prioritizes integration use cases with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders; develops API, MCP, and network automation demos; gathers technical feedback; recommends product improvements; and guides field collateral and methodology development for network operations workflows.

Designs and delivers Cisco-based solutions spanning networking, security, cloud, data center, collaboration, and AI. Leads technical strategies, proofs of value, presentations, and complex enterprise sales cycles while advising executive stakeholders. Manages customer and partner relationships, translates business goals into digital architectures, and provides product feedback to Cisco engineering and development teams. The role requires substantial pre-sales engineering experience and expertise across multiple technical domains.

Generate and qualify pipeline through 30+ daily outbound calls, account-based prospecting, and target-account research. Own opportunities from initial engagement through close, maintain accurate CRM records, and support forecasting. Collaborate with field sales, cross-functional teams, channel partners, and ecosystem partners to advance deals and achieve revenue goals. The role requires professional fluency in Portuguese and English and quota-carrying LATAM sales experience.

Designs and develops security controls for products, cloud environments, infrastructure, and build systems. Responsibilities include vulnerability assessments, threat analysis, security code reviews, hardening, compliance testing, incident response, CI/CD security automation, threat hunting, documentation, mentorship, and security training. The role requires scripting, infrastructure-as-code, Linux administration, security tooling, and cloud or container security experience.

Leads financial planning, reporting, analysis, forecasting, and close processes for G&A, HR, and government affairs functions. Advises C-suite leaders, develops executive financial narratives, improves processes, supports financial technology transformation, and mentors a high-performing finance team. Requires extensive corporate finance and executive partnership experience, with responsibility for budgeting, modeling, strategic investments, and operational accuracy.

Manages Cisco’s corporate planning operations, including QBO, annual planning, ELT scorecards, action tracking, agendas, executive coordination, communications, and planning timelines. Partners with strategy leadership and executive assistants to remove operational barriers, synthesize complex information, support strategic priorities, and keep cross-functional teams aligned. Leads projects and processes across multiple teams while managing changing requirements, competing priorities, and executive-level deliverables.

Lead Cisco’s agentic AI evaluation strategy from architecture through production. Design layered evaluation systems using automated checks, LLM judges, human calibration, simulation, synthetic data, and adversarial testing. Monitor live traffic for regressions and drift, convert production traces into test cases, and validate fixes through shadow and A/B testing. Establish measurement standards across teams, manage datasets and experiment tracking, mentor engineers, and represent AI evaluation practices to senior leadership.

Owns services sales strategy and growth across strategic accounts, leading complex 6–18-month deals valued from $500K to over $5M. Develops and closes new, renewal, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities for premium services. Builds customer and partner relationships, collaborates with account and specialist teams, improves forecasting and sales processes, and drives lifecycle selling, service adoption, and recurring revenue growth.

Lead end-to-end ASIC physical design from RTL through GDSII across advanced technology nodes. Own floorplanning, macro placement, PnR, CTS, timing closure, signoff, ECOs, and tapeout. Develop Python, TCL, and Shell automation to improve implementation flows and turnaround time. Collaborate with RTL, analog, DFT, packaging, and CAD teams to resolve design issues involving timing, IR/EM, parasitics, crosstalk, power grids, and mixed-signal integration.

Lead digital design for Silicon One optical ASICs across architecture, RTL, integration, verification, backend implementation, tapeout, post-silicon validation, and production. Own complex digital blocks and CPU subsystems, integrate high-speed SerDes, DSP, Ethernet, and D2D IP, optimize power and performance, and guide cross-functional teams through the complete ASIC lifecycle.

Design and own silicon photonics products through simulation, layout, GDS tapeout, fabrication, testing, and post-fabrication validation. Collaborate with electronic integrated circuit and module teams to develop optimized opto-electronic chipsets. Perform photonic device layout, circuit modeling, lab measurements, data analysis, and test automation while managing multiple PIC designs and tapeouts. Preferred experience includes RF and opto-electronic simulation, silicon photonics foundries, cross-functional engineering, and AI-assisted testing.

Leads technical strategy, architecture, and execution for backend services and data-processing workflows across cloud and on-premise deployments. Designs scalable distributed systems, improves reliability and performance, resolves production issues, and partners with product, architecture, UX, cross-functional teams, and customers. Establishes engineering standards for secure coding, testing, observability, documentation, and CI/CD while mentoring engineers and leading design and architecture reviews.

Lead and build global mixed-signal and silicon-photonics hardware engineering teams to deliver optical transceiver chipsets and modules. Own product planning, architecture, simulation, bring-up, validation, and documentation. Drive adoption of AI/ML tools to improve development speed and quality, collaborate across digital design, SI/PI, layout, characterization, and operations, and mentor high-performing engineers for predictable, high-quality delivery.

Lead product strategy and technical execution for integrating Splunk Enterprise Security with Cisco Data Fabric. Own distributed data tiering, federated search, security data pipelines, cost reduction, and Day 1 onboarding improvements. Coordinate roadmaps and technical decisions across Splunk, Cisco, engineering, and partners while ensuring SOC detection, investigation, hunting, and response outcomes. Engage customers, field teams, and executives to translate security operations needs into prioritized product capabilities.

Lead and grow a high-performing software sales team for Splunk/Cisco in the SLED public sector. Deliver and forecast revenue, direct sales activities, build pipeline, coach reps on value-based selling, and negotiate deals to achieve quarterly and annual targets.

Lead the evolution and adoption of Cisco Cloud Control’s Human Interface Guidelines across product organizations. Define information architecture, taxonomies, naming systems, and experience rules; establish a cross-functional governance guild; and translate guidance into machine-readable rules and quality evaluations. Use AI tools and automation for research synthesis, content operations, change management, prototyping, and validation while driving alignment, adoption, accountability, and continuous improvement across design, product, engineering, and Studio teams.

Owns the strategy, roadmap, execution, launch, adoption, and evolution of an AI Security product domain within Cisco AI Defense. Leads customer discovery, competitive analysis, technical evaluations, product prioritization, cross-functional alignment, and platform capability development. Translates advances in AI architectures, agents, models, and security techniques into enterprise product solutions while driving measurable customer, security, adoption, and business outcomes.

Designs, configures, tests, deploys, and supports Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM solutions across inventory, manufacturing, order management, procurement, planning, and costing. Analyzes and improves supply chain processes, supports integrations, reporting, data migration, quarterly updates, production troubleshooting, Oracle service requests, documentation, governance, and stakeholder collaboration.

Manage premier Chicagoland accounts and drive complex enterprise sales cycles for Cisco’s secure networking portfolio. Build strategic C-suite relationships, prospect and qualify opportunities, forecast sales using CRM data, articulate networking solutions, lead account planning, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and expand portfolio adoption while achieving revenue and retention goals.

Leads Cisco’s global ASIC capacity planning and strategy across foundries, packaging, substrate, assembly, and test partners. Translates demand, product roadmaps, and business plans into capacity requirements, reservations, allocations, and investment decisions. Directs scenario modeling, risk analysis, supply continuity, and AI-enabled planning transformation. Partners with executives and cross-functional teams while leading a globally distributed organization and developing planning capabilities across the semiconductor manufacturing ecosystem.