Solutions Engineer – Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practitioner

Meet the Team

The Cloud and AI Infrastructure team helps customers transform their businesses by leveraging Cisco's cutting-edge AI, networking, compute, storage, and cloud technologies. We partner with customers, channel partners, and engineering teams to solve complex business challenges through innovative AI solutions that accelerate digital transformation. As AI reshapes industries, our team is at the forefront of enabling customers to confidently deploy, scale, and operationalize AI workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Your Impact

As a Solutions Engineer – AI Practitioner, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers adopt and maximize the value of Cisco's AI infrastructure and solutions. You will engage with customers to understand their business challenges, architect AI-driven solutions, and demonstrate how modern AI technologies can improve operational efficiency, accelerate innovation, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with sales teams to identify customer business challenges and design AI solutions that align with strategic objectives.
• Deliver compelling technical presentations, workshops, demonstrations, and proof-of-concepts for AI, data, and cloud infrastructure solutions.
• Design and articulate AI architectures spanning compute, networking, storage, GPUs, containers, and AI/ML frameworks across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Develop real-world AI use cases, reference architectures, and demonstrations showcasing business value and technical innovation.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and partner teams to ensure successful solution design, deployment, and customer adoption.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or technical consulting with expertise in infrastructure, software, data platforms, analytics, or AI.
• Strong understanding of programming or scripting languages and modern AI software stacks.
• Experience creating deployment guides, technical documentation, and best practices for AI, automation, application acceleration, and enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Proven ability to develop and demonstrate practical AI use cases that solve real-world business problems.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with experience delivering executive briefings, workshops, and technical demonstrations to both technical and business audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline; Master's degree in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field is a plus.
• Experience with AI infrastructure technologies including GPU computing, InfiniBand, RoCE networking, Fibre Channel/IP storage, and scale-out storage architectures.
• Hands-on expertise with Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI models such as GPT, Llama, ResNet, or similar foundation models.
• Strong experience with AI/ML frameworks and data platforms including TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Jupyter, SQL, NoSQL, Vector databases, BigQuery, NVIDIA NIM/NVAIE, or similar technologies.
• Experience training, fine-tuning, and deploying AI models in cloud and on-premises environments, with knowledge of Kubernetes, Responsible AI, AI governance, and AI security practices.

Why Cisco? 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.