Meet the Team
Join our team that's advancing Cisco’s AI/ML capabilities by designing creative algorithms and neural network architectures for natural language processing, machine perception, and Generative AI. You will drive the development of scalable, production-ready machine learning solutions that power Cisco’s products and deliver measurable business impact.

Your Impact
• Analyse Cisco and external datasets to identify opportunities, formulate hypotheses, and translate business needs into feasible ML solutions.
• Design and optimise advanced models using transformers, convolutional neural networks, knowledge distillation, student-teacher frameworks, GANs, and other emerging techniques.
• Lead the exploration and adoption of state-of-the-art algorithms and architectures for complex, business-critical ML applications.
• Establish technical vision and model design practices across functions and product portfolios, guiding teams toward scalable and reliable solutions.
• Automate ML workflows spanning model selection, training, inference,



and deployment to improve efficiency and performance.
• Architect specialised data pipelines and optimisation techniques to enhance model training, accuracy, and computational efficiency.
• Champion CI/CD-driven model integration, deployment, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years, Master’s degree with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and neural network architecture design for NLP, machine perception, or related applications.
• Hands-on experience developing and optimising advanced ML models, including transformer-based and convolutional architectures, knowledge distillation, student-teacher models, and GANs.
• Proficiency in model training, inference optimisation, data preparation, and specialised data-splitting strategies.
• Experience automating ML workflows, improving model perfor

📌 Machine Learning Engineering Technical Leader (Hyderabad)
🏢 Cisco
📍 Hyderabad