Solutions Engineer - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practitioner

Cisco; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Solutions Engineer - AI Practitioner to join our AI in the Cloud and Infrastructure team. You will consult with prospects, translate business needs into AI-enabled architectures, and demonstrate value through hands-on proofs.

You will work with customers across industries, present complex ideas clearly, and lead architecture discussions and workshops to drive adoption of Cisco AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology consulting or pre-sales for software, data, analytics or AI.
• Strong Python programming and scripting capabilities.
• Experience designing and documenting enterprise AI solutions.
• Ability to develop and demonstrate practical AI solutions addressing business needs.
• Solid understanding of ML, DL, generative AI and modern AI architectures.
• Experience with AI infrastructure including GPU systems, cloud services, or containers.
• Excellent presentation and communication, able to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to lead customer workshops, architecture discussions, demonstrations and evaluations.

Responsibilities

• Consult with potential clients to understand needs and tailor AI solutions.
• Drive adoption of Cisco AI solutions across industries through demos and workshops.
• Translate business problems into deployable AI architectures and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to craft compelling solutions.

Skills

Python

Presentation skills

Stakeholder engagement

Workshops facilitation

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Jupyter

NVIDIA AI Enterprise

Kubernetes

NVIDIA NIM

Triton Inference Server

Job description

We are seeking a Solutions Engineer - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practitioner to join our dynamic sales team. As an SE for AI Team, you will consult and drive the adoption of our AI solutions across various industries. You will work with potential clients, understand their specific needs, and provide tailored AI solutions that enhance their business operations. This role requires a deep understanding of AI technologies and expert capability to relay business and technical concepts to a diverse audience. Experience designing and documenting enterprise technology solutions using established architecture and deployment methodologies is an advantage.

Who You'll Work With

You will work within the Cloud and AI Infrastructure organization, helping customers transform their businesses through AI, data center, networking, and cloud technologies. You will collaborate with customers, partners, sales teams, product specialists, and product engineering teams to turn customer problems into deployable solutions and successful business outcomes.

Who You Are

You are energized by the rapid evolution of AI and enjoy solving complex technical and business problems. You are equally comfortable discussing model architectures with data scientists, infrastructure requirements with platform teams, and business outcomes with executives. You communicate clearly, present confidently, and use hands‑on demonstrations to make complex ideas understandable.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technology consulting, pre-sales experience, preferably in software, data, analytics, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, or related fields.
• Strong understanding of programming and scripting languages, particularly Python.
• Experience designing and documenting enterprise technology solutions using established architecture and deployment methodologies.
• Ability to develop and demonstrate practical AI solutions that address real‑world business problems.
• Strong understanding of machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, and modern AI application architectures.
• Experience working with AI infrastructure, including GPU systems, networking, storage, cloud services, or container platforms.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Ability to lead customer workshops, architecture discussions, demonstrations, and technical evaluations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a related field; an advanced degree is a plus.
• Experience with AI infrastructure, including GPU accelerators, high‑performance networking such as InfiniBand or RoCE, and scale‑out storage
• Experience with model‑serving and inference frameworks such as vLLM, NVIDIA NIM, Triton Inference Server, TensorRT‑LLM, or similar technologies.
• In‑depth understanding of transformer‑based language models and multimodal architectures.
• Experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Jupyter, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, OpenShift, containerization, MLOps, and production AI operations.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.