AI Researcher - Efficiency Engineer, Hybrid
Core
Develop and optimize AI agents and features for the 'Circuit' platform, an internal AI engine driving productivity and process automation for Cisco's 80,000+ monthly users.
Role type
Senior AI Researcher / AI Ops Engineer (Applied Research & Production)
Builds
AI agents, model routing systems, and automated features for the Circuit platform
Domain
Enterprise IT / AI Infrastructure / LLM Optimization
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Applied AI/ML research, LLM fine-tuning, model routing, agentic AI development, software development, production deployment, AI-assisted coding tool evaluation, cost-performance trade-off analysis
Preferred skills
AI Ops / MLOps experience, leading technical projects, system-level design for AI UX, real-time workload management, orchestrating domain-specific agents
Technologies
LLMs, open-source LLMs, Agentic AI frameworks, AI coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code)
Responsibilities
Evaluate and implement new AI techniques for cost and performance optimization; fine-tune open-source LLMs against specific metrics; build and maintain AI agents for process automation; modernize existing features using Agentic AI; monitor and integrate new vendor models; lead feature delivery from concept to production; mentor peers and drive cross-functional consensus
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
