Manufacturing Industry Solutions Engineer (AI-Powered)

Cisco Systems; Rockville (MD); On-site; USD 247,000 - 394,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Restricted stock units

Job summary

Cisco is seeking an Industry Solutions Engineer for Manufacturing to be the technical authority on OT/IT convergence, production resiliency, supply chain, and industrial security for discrete and process manufacturers. You will map Cisco's platform to manufacturing environments and design tailored demonstrations and reference architectures.

Collaborating with account teams, industry sales leaders, and customers, you will drive AI adoption, develop POVs, and influence product roadmaps using SAP

Qualifications

• 5+ years in pre-sales, solutions engineering or technical consulting with manufacturing focus.
• Experience with OT/ICS environments (SCADA/PLC/MES) and IT/OT security challenges.
• Experience with security operations, observability, or industrial monitoring platforms; data modeling background.
• Experience integrating SAP ecosystems with back-office and operations workflows.

Responsibilities

• Serve as lead technical expert on Manufacturing use cases (OT/ICS security, production uptime, supply chain visibility).
• Design and deliver demos, POVs, and reference architectures mapping Splunk to manufacturing data sources.
• Drive AI adoption and internal tooling to automate order processing, invoicing, sourcing, and warehousing.
• Architect SAP integration to connect plant-floor operations with back-office systems.
• Influence product roadmap based on customer and regulatory trends (NIST 800-82, IEC 62443).

Skills

5+ years exp

OT/ICS experience

SIEM/SOAR experience

SAP integration experience

Manufacturing domain knowledge

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP Integration Suite

SAP BTP

Job description

Cisco is seeking an Industry Solutions Engineer for Manufacturing to be the technical authority on OT/IT convergence, production resiliency, supply chain, and industrial security for discrete and process manufacturers. You will map Cisco's platform to manufacturing environments and design tailored demonstrations and reference architectures.

Collaborating with account teams, industry sales leaders, and customers, you will drive AI adoption, develop POVs, and influence product roadmaps using SAP