# Machine Learning Engineer

Meet the Team The Splunk AI Platform and Services team builds and operates the core runtime and developer infrastructure powering AI across Splunk and Cisco. We run multi-tenant, large-scale LLM inference, VectorDB/RAG, Model Context Protocol (MCP), and AI DevX services across hybrid multi-cloud environments. Sitting at the intersection of Site Reliability Engineering, Distributed Systems, and ML Infrastructure, our mission is to ensure these mission-critical AI workloads remain highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient in production. Your Impact Scale Core AI Services: Operate and optimize multi-tenant LLM inference, model serving, VectorDB/RAG, and MCP platforms across global cloud and GPU clusters. Drive Platform Resiliency: Establish and monitor SLOs, SLIs, automated health checks, and observability dashboards (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry). Automate Operations & Toil Reduction: Build automation for seamless rollouts, autoscaling, canary deployments, self-healing, and disaster recovery. Optimize GPU & Inference Performance: Tune throughput, latency, model scheduling, batching, caching, and resource allocation using Kubernetes, vLLM, and Ray. Incident

- **Id**: 4152953
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-machine-learning-engineer-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T09:53:41Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T09:53:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4932
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenTelemetry** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Ray** — Optional: no
- **Self-Healing** — Optional: no
- **SLI/SLO/SLA** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no
- **Chaos Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **KServe** — Optional: yes
- **Milvus** — Optional: yes
- **Pinecone** — Optional: yes
- **Ray Serve** — Optional: yes
- **Redis** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT** — Optional: yes
- **TensorRT-LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T09:53:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 60
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.602
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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