# AI Operations Engineer

2021485 - AI Operations Engineer (Hybrid) This position is listed as hybrid - eligible candidates should expect to be present in the Raleigh-Cisco office on a semi-regular basis. Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. Meet the Team Join Cisco’s Commerce Operations Engineering Center (COEC) as an AI Engineer, where you will be part of a dynamic team driving innovation through AI-powered automation. Collaborate with multi-functional AI, engineering, and operations teams to transform sophisticated operational challenges into reliable, scalable AI solutions that advance Cisco’s AI-first future. Your Impact As an AI Engineer in COEC, you will design, build, and operate production-ready AI agents that power Cisco’s Commerce Operations. You will translate complex operational needs into automated workflows by orchestrating LLM reasoning, tool/function calling, retrieval, enterprise integrations, and agent-to-agent communication. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of AI agent delivery-from solution design, guardrails, and system integration to evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvem

- **Id**: 1058268
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-ai-operations-engineer-3>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Research Triangle Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-19T05:04:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-24
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T11:47:30Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 50
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9460
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce, Network Security, Unified Communications, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 85
- **Open postings**: 264
- **Ghost share**: 0.045
- **Stale share**: 0.451
- **Repost share**: 0.087
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 203000
- **Max**: 297400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 297400

## Technologies

- **A2A** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic SDK** — Optional: no
- **AutoGen** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **CrewAI** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI SDK** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **AgentOps** — Optional: yes
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **FinOps** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: yes
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: yes
- **Langfuse** — Optional: yes
- **LangSmith** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: yes
- **LLMOps** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: yes
- **Reranking** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 50

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-19T05:04:14Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-21T22:39:51Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-09-25T03:01:22Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.791
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 50
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:5, wave, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 297400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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