Senior AI Cluster Validation & Release Engineer

020 Cisco Systems, Inc.; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) with match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Life Insurance

RSU grants

Vacation & holidays

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own CVIS/NVIS and AI cluster validation end-to-end. You will run GPU debugging, performance profiling, bottleneck analysis, and craft acceptance criteria with release-ready evidence across Cisco network-switch solutions.

You will develop test plans, automate validation, and ensure interoperability with ToR, compute, and storage components in a lab and customer environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelors+7 years, or Masters+4 years, or PhD+1 year, or equivalent experience.
• Experience building and executing end-to-end validation for GPU or distributed AI systems.
• Experience with test strategy, automation, Python, Linux, performance analysis, and defect triage.
• Translating system requirements into measurable tests, acceptance criteria, and release gates.
• Experience with technical writing and cross-functional communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop test plans, validation matrices, automation, and exit criteria for AI cluster solutions.
• Execute CVIS/NVIS, AI Cluster Validation, GPU burn, NCCL, workload, resilience, and interoperability test suites.
• Model workloads, profile end-to-end performance, analyze bottlenecks, and produce benchmark reports.
• Validate Cisco network-switch, multi-plane, ToR, compute, storage, and software integrations.
• Drive defect triage, evidence collection, release qualification, RA certification, and acceptance-report packaging.

Skills

Test automation

Python

Linux

Performance analysis

Defect triage

GPU validation

NCCL

CI testing

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

NVIDIA NVIS

NVIDIA GPU platforms

Kubernetes

Slurm

CI/CD

Observability tools

Release management

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer to own CVIS/NVIS and AI cluster validation end-to-end. You will run GPU debugging, performance profiling, bottleneck analysis, and craft acceptance criteria with release-ready evidence across Cisco network-switch solutions.

You will develop test plans, automate validation, and ensure interoperability with ToR, compute, and storage components in a lab and customer environment.