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Our group builds foundational evaluation, benchmarking, and observability platforms that empower engineering teams to deploy autonomous AI agents and LLM-powered systems safely, reliably, and with verified accuracy at enterprise scale.\nYour Impact\nAs an Engineering Product Manager you will lead the strategy, architecture, and organizational adoption of Cisco's end-to-end evaluation platform:\nDefine AI Evaluation Platform Strategy: Architect the product vision, staged roadmap, and platform architecture for Cisco's unified offline benchmarking suites, automated LLM judges, and continuous production evaluation systems. \n Operationalize Quality & Safety Standards: Convert ambiguous quality standards (e.g., factual accuracy, hallucination mitigation, safety policies, agentic tool-use fidelity) into objective, repeatable test suites and structured human-in-the-loop review pipelines. \nEstablish Release Gating & Quality Bars: Establish pre-deployment quality bars, risk-based release criteria, and automated regression-detection loops to govern AI model and application rollouts. \n Bridge Offline & Production Telemetry: Connect offline model evaluations directly with live telemetry, product analytics (Amplitude), and real-time user feedback loops to rapidly detect and remediate performance regressions. \nDrive Multi-Team Platform Adoption: Partner deeply with research scientists, engineering leaders, and product managers across business units to drive organization-wide adoption of standardized evaluation frameworks. \nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field with 12+ years of product management experience, OR Master's degree with 8+ years, OR PhD with 5+ years of experience. \nPrior experience leading product management for AI/ML platforms, model evaluation frameworks, Large Language Model (LLM) infrastructure, or data-intensive software products. \nExperience designing and operationalizing offline benchmarking systems, automated evaluation judges, or real-time production quality monitoring pipelines. \nPrevious experience defining risk-based launch criteria, release-gating frameworks, and regression mitigation workflows for software or AI systems. \nExperience driving multi-team platform adoption across matrixed engineering and product organizations. \nPreferred Qualifications\nDirect experience evaluating Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, and autonomous multi-agent systems. \nFamiliarity with modern AI evaluation toolkits (e.g., DeepEval, Ragas, LangSmith, TruLens) and enterprise telemetry architectures. \nPrior experience operating across enterprise SaaS, cloud infrastructure, or hyperscaler environments. \nDemonstrated background in statistical evaluation methodologies, automated LLM-as-a-judge calibration, and human-in-the-loop annotation workflows. \nPractical experience with online evals for agent systems: observing production traces and trajectories to diagnose failure patterns and decide which techniques to apply to make the agent work better. \nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $194,600.00 to $285,700.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\n\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. 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