Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Modeling and Tuning)

Cisco ThousandEyes • San Francisco, CA

346d • $211,700 - $244,700

About The Position

As a Senior AI Engineer on the AI/ML team, you will be responsible for training and tuning the models and performing model evaluations using Deep Learning Machine Learning (AI/ML) Models, and Large Language Models. In this role, you will also be working on data collection design, data engineering, feature engineering, and eval frameworks. The size, diversity, and richness of our data are simply unmatched. The Internet is changing fast, and we are too. The objective of this initiative is to adopt a highly novel and ambitious approach for optimizing networks to better serve applications.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software development experience in building and evaluating ML models and delivering large-scale ML products.
• MS or PhD in a relevant field.
• Proficient in crafting machine learning models, including neural networks, transformer models, Large Language Models, decision trees, and other traditional machine learning models.
• Fluent in machine learning frameworks such as SKLearn, XGBoost, PyTorch, or Tensorflow.
• Proficient in Python and able to transform abstract machine learning concepts into robust, efficient, and scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain large-scale AI/ML pipelines.
• Tune and evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Build evaluation frameworks and metrics.
• Evaluate Deep Learning and transformer-based models.

Benefits

• Quality medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
• Short and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life insurance.
• Numerous wellbeing offerings.
• Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, including one floating holiday and a day off for birthday.
• Accrual of up to 20 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) each year.
• Access to paid time away for critical or emergency issues without tapping into PTO.
• Additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
• Employee Stock Purchase Program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Master's degree