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Cisco Distinguished Engineer - Applied Science - Outshift in Rolle, Switzerland
Please note this posting is to advertise potential job opportunities. This exact role may not be open today, but could open in the near future. When you apply, a Cisco representative may contact you directly if a relevant position opens.
Who We Are
Outshift by Cisco is the emerging tech incubation group that explores, identifies, and creates new businesses for Cisco. We are passionate about being at the cutting edge of technology, taking Cisco into new markets and building exciting products that solve tomorrow’s biggest challenges.
Like a startup, we take an entrepreneurial approach to success. We incubate ideas into products that solve critical needs, then deliver an experience that delights users and customers from MVP to full-blown commercial offering.
Outshift is about innovation. We look from 12 months out to five years into the future, flexibly working to solve problems instead of fitting into a defined job description. We celebrate learning, and expect our teams to fail fast, challenging assumptions and finding new ways of solving problems. Outshifters enjoy gaining experience across a breadth of technological and business challenges and can expect to shift across products/problems and build new skills regularly.
We’re building the next wave of startup-like innovation with the support of a trusted name like Cisco. Where else will you get to do this? Come create with us.
Learn more about us at outshift.com
Who You'll Work With
The Outshift team is highly visible within Cisco as it's leading the future innovation for the business. As part of the Strategy, Incubations & Applications group led by Cisco’s Chief Strategy Officer, you’ll be working with some of the organization’s most forward thinkers. In this role, you can expect to work with engineering, design, and scientists in defining and executing the product plan.
Conduct customer, market, competitive, and industry research. Additionally, have a proven grasp on the overall landscape of generative AI machine learning models, tooling, and applications, and develop a clear strategy around how to elevate competitive differentiators.
Own the creation of Minimal Viable Product (MVP) definition and then defining a product roadmap that elevates the competitive differentiators at every stage. Define customer value prop and return on investment at each stage.
Establish milestones & key metrics to evaluate the success and failure of the project. Also, pay close attention to the metrics and measures important to customer stakeholders and establish a compelling Return on Investment (ROI) for them.
Collaborate with product management team in identifying key collateral - product documents, data sheets, value props, sales decks, ROI calculators, demo videos.
What You'll Do
In this role, you will work in an innovative team, apply and advance powerful AI technologies in products to make tangible business impact and create the latest AI-powered user experiences on various platforms. You will work alongside committed generative AI product management and software engineering teams. You will gain expertise in the most in-demand AI domains for the future, and contribute to shaping Cisco’s AI strategies for the next decade.
The Impact You’ll Make
If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your thoughtful ideas come to life, and the pride in helping grow a best-in-class AI team, this is the place for you.
Your Responsibilities Will Include
Lead a team of applied scientists and drive applied ML initiatives across products.
Drive the generative AI strategy and lead strategic initiatives to employ the most recent advances in ML/AI including multimodal Large Language models (MLLMs) in a fast-paced, experimental environment and create differentiation.
Lead development, implementation, and optimization of LLMs & MLLMs, including training, finetuning, and computational optimizations and deliver novel and highly impactful features.
Work with peer leaders in Outshift and wider Cisco Senior AI practitioners (PE, DE, Fellows) from other business groups to align strategies and collaborate on AI initiatives.
Conduct research and develop innovative AI models using state-of-the-art techniques that include NLP, CV, timeseries, image, video, audio, and other modalities.
Mentor applied scientists and holding us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in ML.
Provide guidance to the team on State-of-the-Art techniques and model architectures across generative AI.
Minimum Requirements
PhD in machine learning, computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related quantitative fields and 10+ years of industry experience in deep learning, natural language processing & understanding, reinforcement learning.
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Masters in machine learning, computer science, mathematics, statistics, or related quantitative fields and 14+ years of industry experience in deep learning, natural language processing & understanding, reinforcement learning.
8+ years exp in Java, C++, Python, and other related languages.
Practical experience in developing, training, deploying, evaluating AI models in real-world applications and knowledge of deep learning frameworks.
Understanding and hands-on experience in (multimodal) large language models, natural language processing, computer vision, image processing, and generative AI techniques
Proven track record of verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Requirements
Depth and breadth in state-of-the-art machine learning technologies like LLMs and MLLMs.
Highly driven leader that is known to deliver in high growth and highly dynamic environments.
Be an advocate for creative technical trends. Acknowledged for driving decisions collaboratively, resolving challenges, ensuring follow through.
Extraordinarily resourceful & rigorous, and can operate successfully among forward-thinking and charismatic people.
Equally comfortable and capable interacting with technologists as with business executives.
Why Cisco?
#WeAreCisco. We are all unique, but collectively we bring our talents to work as a team, to develop innovative technology and power a more inclusive, digital future for everyone. How do we do it? Well, for starters - with people like you!
Nearly every internet connection around the world touches Cisco. We’re the Internet’s optimists. Our technology makes sure the data travelling at light speed across connections does so securely, yet it’s not what we make but what we make happen which marks us out. We’re helping those who work in the health service to connect with patients and each other; schools, colleges and universities to teach in even the most challenging of times. We’re helping businesses of all shapes and size to connect with their employees and customers in new ways, providing people with access to the digital skills they need and connecting the most remote parts of the world - whether through 5G, or otherwise.
We tackle whatever challenges come our way. We have each other’s backs, we recognize our accomplishments, and we grow together. We celebrate and support one another - from big and small things in life to big career moments. And giving back is in our DNA (we get 10 days off each year to do just that).
We know that powering an inclusive future starts with us. Because without diversity and a dedication to equality, there is no moving forward. Our 30 Inclusive Communities, that bring people together around commonalities or passions, are leading the way. Together we’re committed to learning, listening, caring for our communities, whilst supporting the most vulnerable with a collective effort to make this world a better place either with technology, or through our actions.
So, you have colorful hair? Don’t care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That’s cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? Be you, with us! #WeAreCisco
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