Technical Marketing Engineer II

VAILEXA; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a Technical Marketing Engineer II to drive validation workstreams and develop lab environments that reflect real customer deployment scenarios. You will translate technical findings into credible assets for sales, partners, and customers, working with Sr.

TMEs, BU PMs, architects, and field teams. In this role, you will lead testing plans, capture evidence, and communicate results clearly, while growing breadth across Cisco technologies and cross-portfolio integration.

Qualifications

• Broad technical fluency across the Cisco portfolio and the ability to learn quickly as Cisco strategy evolves.
• Experience contributing to technical work across product, engineering, field, sales, or cross-functional teams.
• Ability to execute validation plans, capture evidence, and document findings clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to stay effective in ambiguous technical environments with shifting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead validation workstreams for integrated Cisco solutions under Sr. TME guidance.
• Build, configure, and test lab environments that reflect real customer deployment scenarios.
• Execute validation plans, capture evidence, identify issues, and document repeatable outcomes.
• Collaborate with Sr. TMEs, BU PMs, BU TMEs, architects, and field teams to maintain credible validation.
• Mentor earlier-career TMEs and external partners by sharing lab practices and validation lessons.

Skills

Broad technical fluency across Cisco

Ability to learn quickly

Cross-functional collaboration

Communicating technical results

Adaptability in ambiguity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or equivalent

Job description

Job Title: Technical Marketing Engineer II,

Location/Office Address: Raleigh or ATL

Duration: Long term

Meet the Team Join the team responsible for turning integrated technology strategy into field-credible, evidence-backed proof. Cisco Validated has long helped customers, partners, and field teams deploy with confidence through tested designs, deployment guidance, and validated architectures. As Cisco's portfolio becomes more integrated across networking, security, collaboration, AI, and resilience, the team is evolving to validate not only individual designs, but the cross-portfolio outcomes Cisco presents to the market. This team works across Business Unit product managers, TMEs, architects, field teams, and leadership to clarify what is real, what is repeatable, and what is ready for customers. The work spans lab validation, proof motions, reference architectures, technical findings, and field-facing assets that help sales and customers understand how technologies work better together.

About the Role

Your Impact As a Technical Marketing Engineer on the Cisco Validated team, you will help turn Cisco's One Cisco and Better Together strategy into field-credible technical proof. You will lead defined validation workstreams for integrated Cisco solutions, building and testing lab environments that reflect real customer scenarios and help determine what is repeatable, supportable, and ready for the field. You will work with Sr. TMEs, Business Unit product managers, Business Unit TMEs, architects, field teams, and Cisco Validated peers to execute validation plans, capture evidence, identify integration gaps, and translate technical findings into assets that sales teams, architects, partners, and customers can trust. You will be expected to bring structure to assigned workstreams, work through technical ambiguity, and keep validation tasks moving from test plan to credible proof. You will also build broader technical fluency across the Cisco portfolio, contribute to repeatable validation practices, support earlier-career TMEs and external partner resources, and grow toward larger cross-portfolio ownership over time.

Responsibilities

• Lead defined validation workstreams for integrated Cisco solutions under Sr. TME guidance.
• Build, configure, test, and troubleshoot lab environments that reflect real customer deployment scenarios.
• Execute validation plans, capture evidence, identify issues, and document repeatable outcomes.
• Partner with Sr. TMEs, BU product managers, BU TMEs, architects, field teams, and Cisco Validated peers to keep validation work technically credible and field-relevant.
• Support earlier-career TMEs and external partner resources by sharing lab practices, troubleshooting approaches, and validation lessons learned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent technical experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience designing, testing, troubleshooting, or supporting complex networking, security, cloud, collaboration, or data centre environments.
• Working depth in at least one technical domain, with the aptitude to learn new domains quickly.
• Experience contributing to technical work across product, engineering, field, sales, customer-facing, or cross-functional teams.
• Ability to execute validation plans, capture evidence, document findings, and communicate technical results clearly.
• Demonstrated ability to stay effective and adaptable in ambiguous technical environments with shifting priorities and cross-functional dependencies.

Required Skills

• Broad technical fluency across the Cisco portfolio, with depth in one or more domains and the ability to learn quickly as Cisco's strategy evolves.
• Enough technical range to validate integrated outcomes, identify gaps, and explain how Cisco technologies work together in real customer environments.

Preferred Skills

• Working knowledge of the Cisco portfolio, with hands-on experience across one or more Cisco technologies, architectures, or solution domains.
• Demonstrated ability to understand how Cisco products integrate into broader customer architectures and cross-portfolio outcomes.
• Strong general networking foundation, including routing, switching, wireless, security, cloud connectivity, segmentation, policy, observability, or related infrastructure concepts.
• Exposure to AI infrastructure, AI-ready data centre architectures, GPU cluster networking, high-performance fabrics, workload connectivity, or secure AI architecture concepts.
• Experience validating, designing, deploying, or supporting integrated solutions in lab, field, customer, partner, or systems engineering environments.
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly through lab notes, validation results, documentation inputs, technical reviews, and proof assets.

Technical Scope

The ideal candidate brings broad technical fluency across the Cisco portfolio, with depth in one or more domains and the ability to learn quickly as Cisco's strategy evolves. This role requires enough technical range to validate integrated outcomes, identify gaps, and explain how Cisco technologies work together in real customer environments.

Key areas of technical scope may include:

• Secure networking, routing, switching, wireless, segmentation, policy, assurance, and observability.
• Security architectures, secure access, threat detection, identity, firewall, VPN, and zero trust concepts.
• Cloud, data centre, AI infrastructure, workload connectivity, high-performance fabrics, and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Collaboration platforms, user experience, application behaviour, and integrated workflow considerations.
• Digital resilience, operational continuity, telemetry, troubleshooting, incident readiness, and repeatable recovery patterns.
• Lab validation methods, performance testing, interoperability testing, evidence capture, and technical documentation.