Head of AI Platform Engineering

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 178,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with Cisco matching

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Paid holidays

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. in the United States is seeking a senior leader to drive the CollabAI Platform engineering team through the full design, development, and rollout of foundational AI platform services.

You will steer platform posture across multiple compliance programs and partner with security and SRE to align roadmaps with business priorities. You will establish engineering standards for design reviews, security, observability, and incident response, while guiding cross-team collaborations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field with 15+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 12+ years.
• Minimum of 4 years of direct supervisory or management experience leading software or platform engineering teams.
• Experience directing platform, infrastructure, or shared-services engineering supporting multiple downstream product teams.
• Experience leading large-scale, complex platform initiatives from technical requirements through production deployment.
• Experience defining and implementing technical standards for design, security, and testing in cloud-based environments (FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, or comparable regulated environments strongly preferred).

Responsibilities

• Lead the CollabAI Platform engineering team through the full design, development, and rollout lifecycle of foundational AI platform services.
• Drive platform posture across multiple AI compliance programs, partnering with security and pen-test teams on scoped assessments and remediation.
• Establish rigorous engineering standards for design reviews, security, observability, and quality, such as load/latency SLAs, and incident response for platform-impacting events.
• Manage cross-team commitments and trade-offs, aligning platform roadmap and resource allocation with product priorities across CollabAI, Meetings, Messaging, and Contact Center.
• Partner cross-functionally with product management, SRE, security/compliance, hyperscaler account teams (AWS, Azure, OpenAI), and consuming product teams to translate stakeholder needs into platform decisions.
• Optimize platform architecture and workflows to improve development velocity, reduce cost per inference, and ensure the platform scales with growing AI adoption across the BU.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Agile experience

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Master's degree

Tools

FedRAMP

PCI-DSS

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. in the United States is seeking a senior leader to drive the CollabAI Platform engineering team through the full design, development, and rollout of foundational AI platform services.

You will steer platform posture across multiple compliance programs and partner with security and SRE to align roadmaps with business priorities. You will establish engineering standards for design reviews, security, observability, and incident response, while guiding cross-team collaborations