# 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. As a Technical Leader, you will sit at the intersection of Data Engineering, Search Science, and Generative AI. You will lead a team of engineers to build the core infrastructure that allows our internal tools to "know" our data and act upon it. You will be responsible for the technical integrity of our search pipelines, the reliability of our LLM integrations, and the scalability of our agentic workflows. Your Impact You will lead the design and implementation of high-scale data ingestion pipelines using Dataflow (Apache Beam) and Elasticsearch, ensuring that internal data is indexed, searchable, and ready for LLM consumption. You will own the search core, implementing advanced re-ranking algorithms and refining relevancy metrics to ensure that the information retrieved by our AI agents is accurate, timely, and high-quality. You will d

- **Id**: 4320460
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-software-engineer-nextgen-ai-search>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **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**: 2026-11-14T19:53:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7628
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- **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**: 167700
- **Max**: 282000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 282000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **ElasticSearch** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: yes
- **Copilot** — Optional: yes
- **Cursor** — Optional: yes
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **Rest API** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T19:53:59Z

## 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:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T21:10:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 282000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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