Responsibilities

• Lead defined validation workstreams for integrated Cisco solutions under Sr. TME guidance.
• Build, configure, test, and troubleshoot lab environments that reflect real customer deployment scenarios.
• Execute validation plans, capture evidence, identify issues, and document repeatable outcomes.
• Partner with Sr. TMEs, BU product managers, BU TMEs, architects, field teams, and Cisco Validated peers to keep validation work technically credible and field-relevant.
• Support earlier-career TMEs and external partner resources by sharing lab practices, troubleshooting approaches, and validation lessons learned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field and 8+ years of hands-on technical experience, testing, troubleshooting, or supporting complex networking, security, cloud, collaboration, or data center environments.
• Experience in at least one technical domain to include networking, security, cloud, collaboration, automation, or adjacent infrastructure technologies, with depth in at least one major technical domain.
• Experience contributing to technical work across product, engineering, field, sales, customer-facing, or cross-functional teams.
• Experience executing validation plans, capture evidence, document findings, and communicate technical results clearly.

Preferred

• Working knowledge of the Cisco portfolio, with hands-on experience across one or more Cisco technologies, architectures, or solution domains.
• Ability to understand how Cisco products integrate into broader customer architectures and cross-portfolio outcomes.
• Ability to stay effective and adaptable in ambiguous technical environments with shifting priorities and cross-functional dependencies.
• Strong general networking foundation, including routing, switching, wireless, security, cloud connectivity, segmentation, policy, observability, or related infrastructure concepts.
• Exposure to AI infrastructure, AI-ready data center architectures, GPU cluster networking, high-performance fabrics, workload connectivity, or secure AI architecture concepts.
• Experience validating, designing, deploying, or supporting integrated solutions in lab, field, customer, partner, or systems engineering environments.
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly through lab notes, validation results, documentation inputs, technical reviews, and proof assets.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance
• a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
• paid parental leave
• short and long-term disability coverage
• basic life insurance
• grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time
• paid time away: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
• 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
• non-exempt: 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period; exempt: flexible vacation time off with no defined limit (subject to availability and some business limitations)
• 80 hours of sick time off 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