Machine Learning Engineer

Meet the Team

Splunk, a Cisco company, is building a safer, more resilient digital world with an end‑to‑end, full‑stack platform designed for hybrid, multi‑cloud environments.

The Splunk AI Platform and Services team provides the core runtime and developer experience that power AI across Splunk and Cisco. We manage large-scale, multi-tenant LLM inference across major cloud providers and build platform services to support these workloads. We also provide VectorDB / RAG services and MCP services that make AI workloads secure, observable, and cost-efficient for product teams.

On top of this foundation, we deliver agentic frameworks, SDKs, tools, and evaluation / guardrail capabilities that help teams quickly build reliable GenAI assistants and automation features. You’ll join a group that sits at the intersection of distributed systems, ML, and developer experience, grounded in operational excellence and a culture of impact‑driven, cross‑functional collaboration.

Your Impact

• Implement features for GenAI services and APIs that power chat assistants, and automation workflows across Splunk products.
• Help build and maintain RAG pipelines : retrieval orchestration, hybrid search, chunking & embeddings, and grounding with logs / events / metrics.
• Contribute to agentic and multi‑agent workflows using frameworks like LangChain or LangGraph, integrating with MCP tools, internal APIs, and external systems.
• Develop and refine developer‑facing SDKs, templates, and reference apps (primarily Python / TypeScript) that make it simple for other teams to compose tools, chains, and agents on top of it.
• Integrate with LangSmith or similar eval stacks to instrument prompts, capture traces, and run evaluations under the guidance of more senior engineers and scientists.
• Collaborate with product managers and UX to turn user stories into GenAI experiences, iterate based on feedback, and ship features that move customer and business metrics.
• Apply and advocate responsible AI practices in day‑to‑day work : grounding, guardrails, access controls, and human‑in‑the‑loop flows.

Minimum Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications :

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 physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled 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.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and / or Canada :

The starting salary range posted for this position is $181,000.00 to $235,000.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and / or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation

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.

U.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.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies :

For non‑sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees 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 :

For non‑quota‑based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below :

New York City Metro Area :

$181,000.00 - $270,300.00

Non‑Metro New York state & Washington state :

$165,300.00 - $240,600.00

Cisco is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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