Application window has been extended, and expected to close on 11/15/2024. Who We Are: The Cisco Distributed System Engineering (DSE) group is at the forefront of developing products that power the largest networks in the world. The networking industry is going through a massive transformation to build the next generation infrastructure to meet the needs of AI/ML workloads and continuously increasing internet users and application. We are uniquely positioned to capture that market transition. This team builds products by harnessing the potential of open-source technologies while pushing the boundaries on Systems and Silicon Architecture. Who You’ll Work With: You will be leading a team of engineers who are passionate about tackling complex technology, building large scale distributed systems and comfortable working with open-source communities and technologies. You will be part of a fast-paced work environment and responsible for end-to-end product development and production support. Who You Are: An experienced leader who is curious and a problem solver. You love to learn and grow, and lead a diverse team in an environment that is constantly evolving. You have the aptitude to learn information quickly and use resources to research and resolve issues. You are willing and able to work with multi-disciplinary, multicultural, and geographically dispersed teams. This is the role for you if you consider yourself a leader and a technologist at heart, and come with: * Experience with Network Operating Systems and in System and Software Qualification * Diligent with an automation first approach and experience with scripting languages and test frames works * Passionate about open-source development and contribution What You’ll Do: As a Tech Lead/Manager for AI/ML Test Engineering, you'll lead an agile team engaged in the design, development and execution of tests to qualify network performance for AI.ML capability. In this role you’ll have opportunity to: * Build out testing environment for system/solution validation * Develop and enhance test framework and benchmarking tools * Define and gather data for network performance benchmarking * Understand and troubleshoot customer issues Basic Qualifications: * Bachelors in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Computer Engineering + 12 years of experience building network and test automation, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience * Proven experience leading a team of engineers * 3+ years' experience configuring, debugging networking systems and solutions * 3+ years’ experience using scripting languages including Python Preferred Qualifications: * Experience working with test frameworks, and traffic generators (commercial & open-source) * Exposure to network operating systems, preferably SONiC * Knowledge of control & data plane technologies including L2, L3, VXLAN, segment Routing and/or MPLS * Exposure to RDMA, HPC networks * Knowledge of RoCE and Infini band protocols * Hands on experience with GIT, Jira, Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline tools Why Cisco? \#WeAreCisco. 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