# Software Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems

The application window is expected to close on: 12/20/2026. NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received. *This role is an onsite position located in San Jose, CA. Though the team may offer hybrid days, the selected finalist will be expected to work onsite. Meet the Team Cisco Silicon One™ is Cisco’s revolutionary silicon architecture powering the next generation of web-scale, cloud, service provider, enterprise, and AI networking infrastructure. The Silicon One Software team develops the comprehensive SDK software stack that enables our high-performance silicon products across global networks. We are seeking a Software Engineer to help our team design, build, and operate practical AI tools that improve how people find information, automate tasks, and integrate AI into their daily workflows. Your Impact Design and build AI-powered document query and knowledge-retrieval systems. Develop user-facing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and agentic tools. Automate engineering workflows and integrate AI capabilities. Create specialized AI models and developer utilities for networking domains, including switch

- **Id**: 3921004
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-software-engineer-ai-agentic-systems>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **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**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T00:12:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6812
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, 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**: 289
- **Ghost share**: 0.048
- **Stale share**: 0.464
- **Repost share**: 0.097
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 25
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 167700
- **Max**: 245200
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 245200

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Ollama** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **vLLM** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; 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

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T01:28:38Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 245200
- **Is top pay**: yes

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