# Director, AI Engineering

The application window is expected to close on: 11/19/2026Location: San Jose (Onsite) No relocation will be provided Meet the Team The CX AI Incubation and Agent team builds breakthrough solutions across delivery intelligence, network automation, and edge computing for Cisco Customer Experience (CX) and our global customers. We partner across engineering, product, and design to develop scalable, responsible platforms leveraging Generative and Agentic AI. Join an inclusive, high-impact team pushing the boundaries of AI innovation to solve critical enterprise challenges. Your Impact As an engineering leader in Cisco CX, you will define and execute the technical strategy for AI solutions that transform customer adoption and renewals. You will lead high-performing engineering teams from concept to production, operationalizing autonomous agents, context engineering, and multi-agent orchestration platforms. In this role, you will combine deep technical architecture with business strategy to deliver production-grade AI systems at scale. What You’ll Do Drive engineering Delivery: Spearhead end-to-end development of agentic AI solutions across the CX customer adoption and renewals portfolio

- **Id**: 604720
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-director-ai-engineering>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-27
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T15:01:01Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-07T15:01:01Z
- **Days open**: 59
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7542
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, 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**: 250600
- **Max**: 416900
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 416900

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ghost
- **Repost count**: 3
- **Flags**: repost
- **Days open**: 59

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-10T17:53:23Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-13T15:06:15Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-09-14T15:26:10Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-09-25T09:08:45Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-09-28T15:38:53Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-20T00:59:40Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-28T02:35:12Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-07T15:01:01Z

## 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

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 416900
- **Is top pay**: yes

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