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Candidates should be located in San Jose, CA or Raleigh, NC or Atlanta, GA. Meet the Team\nJoin Cisco Validated, the team responsible for turning Cisco's integrated technology strategy into field-credible, evidence-backed proof. Cisco Validated has long helped customers, partners, and field teams deploy with confidence through tested designs, deployment guidance, and validated architectures. As Cisco's portfolio becomes more integrated across networking, security, collaboration, AI, and resilience, the team is evolving to validate not only individual designs, but the cross-portfolio outcomes Cisco presents to the market.\nThis team works across Business Unit product managers, TMEs, architects, field teams, and leadership to clarify what is real, what is repeatable, and what is ready for customers. The work spans lab validation, proof motions, reference architectures, technical findings, and field-facing assets that help sales and customers understand how Cisco technologies work better together.\nYour Impact\nAs a Technical Marketing Engineer on the Cisco Validated team, you will help turn Cisco's One Cisco and Better Together strategy into field-credible technical proof. You will contribute to validation workstreams for integrated Cisco solutions, building and testing lab environments that reflect real customer scenarios and help determine what is repeatable, supportable, and ready for the field.\nYou will work with Sr. TMEs, mid-level TMEs, Business Unit TMEs, architects, field teams, and Cisco Validated peers to execute test plans, capture evidence, troubleshoot issues, and translate technical findings into documentation inputs and proof assets. You will be expected to learn quickly, stay adaptable through technical ambiguity, and build confidence moving validation tasks from test plan to credible proof.\nYou will also develop broader technical fluency across the Cisco portfolio, learn repeatable validation practices, and grow toward larger validation workstream ownership over time. \nResponsibilities include:\n· Secure networking, routing, switching, wireless, segmentation, policy, assurance, observability, secure access, identity, firewall, VPN, and zero trust concepts.\n· Cloud, data center, AI infrastructure, workload connectivity, high-performance fabrics, and hybrid cloud architectures.\n· Collaboration platforms, user experience, application behavior, and integrated workflow considerations.\n· Digital resilience, operational continuity, telemetry, troubleshooting, incident readiness, and repeatable recovery patterns.\n· Lab validation methods, performance testing, interoperability testing, evidence capture, and technical documentation.\nTechnical Scope\nThe ideal candidate is building technical fluency in networking, with the curiosity and aptitude to learn adjacent Cisco technologies as the portfolio evolves. This role requires enough technical foundation to support validation work, identify issues, document findings, and understand how Cisco technologies work together in real customer environments.\nKey areas of technical scope may include:\n· Secure networking, routing, switching, wireless, segmentation, policy, assurance, observability, secure access, identity, firewall, VPN, and zero trust concepts.\n· Cloud, data center, AI infrastructure, workload connectivity, high-performance fabrics, and hybrid cloud architectures.\n· Collaboration platforms, user experience, application behavior, and integrated workflow considerations.\n· Digital resilience, operational continuity, telemetry, troubleshooting, incident readiness, and repeatable recovery patterns.\n· Lab validation methods, performance testing, interoperability testing, evidence capture, and technical documentation.\nMinimum Qualifications\n· Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field and 7+ years of hands-on industry experience\n· 2+ years of hands-on experience testing, troubleshooting, supporting, or deploying networking, security, cloud, collaboration, or data center technologies.\n· Experience following test plans, capturing evidence, documenting findings, and communicating technical results. \nPreferred Qualifications\n· Working knowledge of the Cisco portfolio, with hands-on experience across one or more Cisco technologies and a basic understanding of how Cisco products integrate into broader customer architectures.\n· Strong foundational networking knowledge, including routing, switching, wireless, security, cloud connectivity, segmentation, policy, observability, or related infrastructure concepts.\n· Foundational awareness of AI infrastructure concepts, such as data center connectivity, workload placement, high-performance networking, or secure AI architecture.\n· Exposure to validating, designing, deploying, or supporting integrated solutions in lab, field, customer, partner, or systems engineering environments.\n· Ability to document and communicate technical findings clearly, with growing confidence presenting validation results.\n· Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, stay adaptable, and remain effective in ambiguous technical environments.\n· Strong curiosity, initiative, and willingness to build technical breadth across Cisco's portfolio.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.\nFueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nMessage to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:\nThe starting salary range posted for this position is $132,800.00 to $185,100.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits.Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.\nU.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks. Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.\nU.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:\n10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees\n\n1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco\n\nNon-exempt employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees\n\nExempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)\n\n80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next\n\nAdditional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members\n\nOptional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer\n\nFor non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.\nEmployees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:\n.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;\n\n1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;\n\n1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and\n\nOnce performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.\n\nFor non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. 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