Senior AI Validation, Benchmarking & Release Engineer

Cisco Systems; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Cisco Systems in San Jose seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the CVIS/NVIS AI cluster validation program. You will own end-to-end validation, testing, RA certification, GPU debugging, performance profiling, and release readiness across Cisco network-switch solutions.

You will develop test plans, execute validation suites, model workloads, analyze bottlenecks, collect evidence, and package acceptance reports.

Qualifications

• 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 skills.
• Translating system requirements into measurable tests and release gates.

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 strategy

Automation

Python

Linux

Performance analysis

Defect triage

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

NVIS

NCCL

Kubernetes

Slurm

CI-based testing

Job description

Cisco Systems in San Jose seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the CVIS/NVIS AI cluster validation program. You will own end-to-end validation, testing, RA certification, GPU debugging, performance profiling, and release readiness across Cisco network-switch solutions.

You will develop test plans, execute validation suites, model workloads, analyze bottlenecks, collect evidence, and package acceptance reports.