# Lead Performance & AI Tools Engineer, Hybrid

The application window is expected to close on: 12/20/2026This is a Hybrid role based out of Cisco's San Jose office. MEET THE TEAM Cisco’s Developer Platforms and AI Productivity team is dedicated to empowering thousands of engineers by building next-generation internal tools, developer workflows, and autonomous AI agents. As part of Cisco's core engineering organization, our platforms accelerate software delivery speed, eliminate development friction, and ensure high reliability across our global cloud-native portfolio. We are a high-impact, collaborative group of systems engineers, performance architects, and AI practitioners who operate with a startup mindset, treating internal developers as our primary customers. You will have the unique opportunity to pioneer the future of AI-assisted software engineering by integrating coding agents, automated triage, and intelligent performance frameworks at massive enterprise scale. YOUR IMPACT As a Technical Leader in Developer Productivity & Performance Engineering, you will serve as the architectural owner for intelligent developer platforms and AI agent tooling. You will turn complex software delivery bottlenecks into high-leverage aut

- **Id**: 3825668
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-lead-performance-ai-tools-engineer-hybrid>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Milpitas, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T18:22:43Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T16:00:15Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10429
- **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**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 283
- **Ghost share**: 0.06
- **Stale share**: 0.442
- **Repost share**: 0.106
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 186900
- **Max**: 307800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 307800

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Datadog** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Locust** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Lighthouse** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes
- **Playwright** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T18:22:43Z

## 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**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 6
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 307800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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