Senior Technical Lead for Autonomous Agentic Frameworks and System Integration

About the role

The Application window for this role is expected to close on September 25, 2026. The position may be filled earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy autonomous agents that operate within dynamic environments, making independent decisions to achieve goals.
• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of agentic projects, defining project scopes, breaking down complex technical requirements into actionable tasks, and managing the team’s backlog to ensure high-velocity delivery.
• Implement multi-agent, collaborative systems and design complex agent workflows using frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, or CrewAI.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact to coordinate schedules and dependencies across multiple teams, ensuring that agentic capabilities are synchronized with organizational priorities.
• Develop and integrate tools, APIs, and databases for agents to interact with, enabling real-world actions.
• Optimize large language model (LLM) interactions, including prompting, fine-tuning, and context management to enhance reasoning and reduce hallucinations.
• Provide regular status updates and risk assessments to leadership regarding project timelines and technical blockers.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate autonomous capabilities into existing software development life cycles (SDLC), championing Agile methodologies and best practices for task tracking and documentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree + 8 years of related experience OR Master’s degree + 6 years of related experience.
• Experience in designing, developing, and deploying AI agents, agentic systems and/or agentic orchestration patterns.
• Experience with evals driven development and observability for non-deterministic systems.
• Experience developing code in Python.
• Experience with frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph.
• Experience with cloud-based data platforms like SnowFlake.
• Experience with asynchronous programming (multi-turn agents or multi-step agents or similar).
• MCP or tool-integration patterns for enterprise systems.
• Experience using Jira and GitHub.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to collaborate across teams.
• Ability to lead projects, organize and manage deliverables.
• Experience working through new features and prioritizing execution.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proactive “Go Getters” comfortable in fast-paced environments.
• Experience building applications with frontier models and open-source LLM Ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of large language models (LLMs), including how they work and how to train and focus them on specific areas.
• Experience with natural language processing and prompt engineering.
• Experience with enterprise security and agentic access control patterns.
• Experience with using AI Development Tools like Claude Code, Codex, Snowflake Cortex or similar.

Benefits

Cisco offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a variety of perks designed to support your well-being and career growth. The starting salary range for this role is $183,800.00 to $263,600.00, reflecting the projected salary range for new hires in U.S. and/or Canadian 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. For more detailed information about benefits, please refer to the Cisco careers site.

Pay

The starting salary range for this role is $183,800.00 to $263,600.00, reflecting the projected salary range for new hires in U.S. and/or Canadian 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.

Schedule

This is a Hybrid role requiring work onsite Tuesday-Thursday.