# Software Engineer NextGen AI Search

The application window is expected to close on: 12/30/2026Meet the Team The AI Platforms and Enablement team is the engine behind Cisco’s internal AI transformation. Our mission is to build and scale CIRCUIT, our universal enterprise AI platform designed to collapse information silos and amplify productivity through intelligent, agentic experiences. Your Impact As a Software Engineer, you will be a core contributor to our engineering efforts, focusing on building high-performance data pipelines, search infrastructure, and agentic components that power our AI capabilities. You will be the search infrastructure and data engineering specialist within the CIRCUIT ecosystem, from data ingestion and indexing to the implementation of generative AI workflows. You will build and optimize robust data ingestion pipelines using Dataflow (Apache Beam), ensuring enterprise data flows seamlessly into our search ecosystem. You will implement and tune Elasticsearch configurations, develop re-ranking algorithms, and improve relevancy measurements to ensure high-quality outputs. Additionally, you will build and refine AI Agents, deploy and manage services on GCP using Kubernetes, and work directly wi

- **Id**: 4324398
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-software-engineer-nextgen-ai-search-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Research Triangle Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T23:03:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7096
- **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**: 83
- **Open postings**: 284
- **Ghost share**: 0.063
- **Stale share**: 0.447
- **Repost share**: 0.106
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 128600
- **Max**: 184900
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 184900

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **Cursor** — Optional: yes
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **Rest API** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T23:03:14Z

## 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**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T23:56:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 184900
- **Is top pay**: yes

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