Senior AI-Driven Enterprise Architect

Cisco Systems; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Short/long-term disability

Basic life insurance

Restricted stock units

Job summary

Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA is seeking a technical leader to shape the vision of intelligent enterprise applications and architect next-generation services that embed autonomous capabilities into business workflows.

The role focuses on contract-first API design, API schemas, and integrating reasoning models with UI and backend systems, collaborating across teams to deliver scalable cloud-native SaaS solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in back-end software architecture and core software development using Python, Node, Go, or Java.
• Experience building and shipping complex enterprise or SaaS applications.
• Production experience with LLM-backed applications: agent orchestration LangGraph, a state-machine runtime you wrote yourself, structured tool calling, and the failure handling that has to sit underneath both.
• Experience with a contract-first API design and schema modeling (OpenAPI, TypeSpec, GraphQL, gRPC).

Responsibilities

• Design and lead hands-on implementation of next-generation intelligent enterprise applications.
• Serve as architectural anchor for embedding autonomous capabilities into business-critical workflows.
• Focus on the application layer—designing contract-first architectures that connect business logic, UI, and backend systems to reasoning models via MCP and modern APIs.

Skills

Python

Node.js

Go

Java

LLM-backed apps

LangGraph

OpenAPI

GraphQL

gRPC

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering

Tools

OpenAPI

TypeSpec

GraphQL

gRPC

Job description

Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA is seeking a technical leader to shape the vision of intelligent enterprise applications and architect next-generation services that embed autonomous capabilities into business workflows.

The role focuses on contract-first API design, API schemas, and integrating reasoning models with UI and backend systems, collaborating across teams to deliver scalable cloud-native SaaS solutions.