Jobs at Cisco

Guide enterprise customers in adopting, deploying, and optimizing Cisco Secure Firewall and hybrid mesh security solutions. Lead technical adoption plans, customer workshops, onboarding, business reviews, testing, validation, and executive briefings. Identify technical risks and adoption opportunities using telemetry, analytics, and AI-driven insights. Collaborate with Sales, Engineering, Renewals, and Product Management while providing customer feedback, mentoring team members, and supporting scalable customer success initiatives.

Program manages complex network security and quality initiatives across engineering, security, compliance, sales, and customer experience teams. Defines security metrics, drives remediation plans, improves vulnerability and component health, develops compliance dashboards, analyzes trends, manages risks and dependencies, and leads execution across global teams. The role also uses AI tools to automate work and generate insights.

Lead product security and regulatory-readiness initiatives, translating requirements such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act and AI regulations into technical controls, implementation plans, and measurable evidence. Build compliance engineering capabilities including automated evidence collection, control-as-code, dashboards, and continuous monitoring. Assess cloud sovereignty, AI systems, data flows, and third-party risks while supporting audits, risk reporting, and cross-functional security practices.

Cisco seeks software engineering interns to design and build full-stack and backend solutions, including APIs, backend services, user interfaces, and distributed systems. Interns will work with data structures, object-oriented programming, databases, cloud platforms, and potentially containerization, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, and UI frameworks. Applicants must remain enrolled in an eligible degree or workforce development program after the internship.

Analyze internal processes, data, and business problems; collaborate on multifunctional projects; identify improvement opportunities and benefits from new capabilities; and develop practical solutions that improve Cisco’s operations and collaboration. The role is intended for students enrolled in a degree or workforce development program in business, supply chain, communications, mathematics, finance, industrial engineering, statistics, or a related field.

Principal Product Designer responsible for shaping complex, cross-product networking experiences from customer insight through launch and iteration. The role involves interaction and visual design, information architecture, prototyping, data visualization, validation, and collaboration with Product, Engineering, Research, Data, and AI teams. The designer will influence product direction across multiple teams, improve design quality, and create coherent experiences across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

Leads business operations for the Office of the Chief Supply Chain Officer, managing process optimization, financial oversight, initiative tracking, resource allocation, risk mitigation, and performance benchmarking. Oversees overhead spend and capital processes, translates strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, and provides data and metrics to support site enablement and leadership decisions. Manages a team and drives operational transformation across supply chain functions.

Define and scale Cisco’s AI security standards across products and platforms. Lead threat modeling, secure AI architecture, adversarial testing, supply-chain risk management, AI-assisted development security, evaluation frameworks, and release criteria. Advise engineering and product leaders on vulnerabilities, privacy, governance, and risk while influencing cross-functional teams without direct reports. Establish security patterns for RAG, agents, tool calling, identity, bounded autonomy, CI/CD gates, provenance, and post-deployment incident response.

Develop and execute executive communications for the Americas Software and Services Sales VP while supporting communications operations. Responsibilities include strategic messaging, thought leadership content, communication channels, social media strategy, templates, toolkits, playbooks, platform management, and alignment with sales, global communications, enablement, and change management teams.

Leads finance and procurement application architecture and process transformation across manufacturing operations. Optimizes capital procurement, asset accounting, standard costing, P2P, O2C, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and financial close workflows. Designs ERP integrations, supports Oracle Fusion Cloud, enables SOX compliance, and drives automation, analytics, AI, and scalable digital solutions.

Leads talent intelligence strategy by governing external labor-market data, synthesizing multi-source analytics into executive narratives, defining reporting and AI use cases, and partnering with analytics engineering on Snowflake models. Champions talent intelligence platforms, trains recruiting teams, develops sourcing playbooks and market briefings, and advises leaders on competitor talent, skills, compensation, attrition, location, and hiring strategies.

Manage end-to-end hardware engineering programs from concept through customer release. Coordinate engineering, product, operations, manufacturing, and supplier teams; track risks, dependencies, schedules, budgets, and resources; resolve issues; provide leadership updates; and improve governance and delivery through automation and AI-enabled workflows.

Leads product marketing for Cisco’s AI infrastructure, compute, virtualization, HCI, and software ecosystem solutions. Develops joint GTM strategies with partners such as Nutanix and Red Hat, creates technical marketing assets, enables sales and channel teams, manages product launches and campaigns, and represents solutions at conferences, briefings, webinars, and partner events.

Marketing internship focused on developing foundational marketing and communications skills through cross-functional projects, mentorship, networking, and exposure to campaigns, content, brand, digital media, events, operations, and analytics. Interns collaborate with peers and marketing leaders, complete a business-relevant group project, and contribute creative problem-solving in a fast-paced hybrid environment.

Drive supply chain readiness, total cost and margin management, BOM resiliency, cost reduction, and risk mitigation for hardware programs from pre-concept through first customer ship. Validate costed BOMs and forward costing, support value engineering and commodity analysis, and lead supply and ramp plans through early production. Collaborate with engineering, suppliers, strategic management, and finance while managing NPI, PLM, MRP, sourcing, and supplier cost negotiations.

Lead global cloud capacity planning across providers, regions, workloads, and resource types. Build forecasts and scenario models, align demand with supply, manage CSP reservations, control cloud costs with FinOps, and coordinate with sales, engineering, and product teams. Mentor capacity planners and introduce AI-enabled forecasting and reporting tools to improve accuracy, delivery timing, and capacity-gap ownership.

Architects and delivers mechanical designs for advanced electronic hardware platforms, including boards, enclosures, chassis, thermal and structural systems. Leads cross-functional development from concept through testing, resolves complex system-level issues, and supports PCB, interconnect, EMC, safety, signal integrity, DFM, DFA, GD&T, and tolerance analysis. Coordinates project schedules, vendors, specifications, ECOs, BOMs, and patent initiatives while collaborating across engineering and manufacturing teams.

Leads ASIC physical design from full-chip floorplanning through RTL-to-GDSII implementation and tapeout. Responsibilities include hierarchical partitioning, pin and bump planning, clock mesh and H-Tree design, power planning, place and route, timing closure, power integrity, physical verification, equivalence checks, low-power UPF methodologies, and process optimization. Collaborates with RTL, DFT, package, system, foundry, IP vendor, and EDA teams while applying AI tools to improve productivity.

Lead Cisco’s strategic relationship with SHI by developing joint business plans, driving co-selling and pipeline growth, optimizing partner profitability, expanding technical practices, and coordinating executive relationships, enablement, marketing, incentives, and deal escalations across Cisco and partner teams.

Manages strategic global partner relationships and alliances, develops multi-product go-to-market strategies, influences executive stakeholders, leads sales enablement and cross-functional initiatives, and oversees forecasting and pipeline acceleration. The role drives partner ecosystem growth, new market entry, consumption-model adoption, product roadmap influence, and revenue expansion through workshops, pilots, competitive analysis, and scalable partner programs.