Senior Technical Marketing Engineering Leader

The application window is expected to close on: 11/22/2026 This role is a Hybrid Role requiring 2 days per week in the Milpitas, CA office. Meet the Team  Our organization is at the forefront of Cisco’s strategic evolution into the AI Cloud Infrastructure market. We are a specialized, high-impact team dedicated to building and scaling the next generation of infrastructure solutions, including Nexus-One. By integrating compute, networking, storage, and security into cohesive, automated platforms, we solve the most complex challenges facing modern data centers. We operate with the agility of a startup, driven by a mission to turn cutting-edge innovation into deployable, enterprise-grade realities that empower our customers to lead in the AI era.

As a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer and Technical Leader, you will serve as the primary technical authority for our AI infrastructure platform, bridging the gap between sophisticated engineering development and customer-facing deployment. You will own the technical narrative, validating the end-to-end lifecycle of our solutions to ensure they meet the rigorous demands of real-world enterprise environments. By translating field feedback and adoption blockers into actionable technical requirements, you will directly influence our product roadmap and ensure our technology is ready for global scale. Your work will define how customers perceive, adopt, and derive value from Cisco’s most critical new product innovations.  ·Design, implement, and maintain reference architectures and validated deployment patterns for AI-driven cloud infrastructure.  ·Operate full-stack lab environments to validate Day 0, Day 1, and Day 2 workflows, including automation, scaling, and security controls.  ·Collaborate with engineering and product management to identify product gaps, resolve adoption blockers, and define technical readiness criteria.  ·Produce technical assets such as white papers, deployment guides, demonstration videos, and workshops to enable internal field teams and external partners.  ·Represent the product and technical strategy in customer workshops, executive briefings, and strategic industry forums.    Minimum Qualifications   ·Bachelor’s degree in Engineering + 12 years of professional experience, or a Master’s degree + 8 years of professional experience.  ·Experience in technical marketing, solutions architecture, systems engineering, or platform/site reliability engineering.  ·Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters in production or production-like environments, including container orchestration, networking, and storage integrations.  ·Experience developing infrastructure automation using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go) or infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).  ·Experience creating and delivering technical presentations or documentation, such as white papers, deployment guides, or architectural design reviews, for technical audiences.  ·Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, specifically managing GPU clusters, model training pipelines, or AI-workload placement within Kubernetes.     Preferred Qualifications  ·Technical knowledge of high-performance networking technologies including RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), lossless Ethernet, or low-latency data center fabrics.  ·Experience with public or private cloud platform services, including multi-tenancy, identity and access management, and observability frameworks.  ·Operational experience with performance benchmarking.  ·Experience working in agile, rapid-growth environments where product requirements and technical priorities evolve continuously.    Why Cisco?  At 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