AI Operations Engineer

$169,800–$297,400annualizedRaleigh, NCHybridSeniorToday

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About the job

AI Operations Engineer in Cisco’s Commerce Operations Engineering Center, responsible for designing, deploying, and operating production-grade AI agents that automate commerce operations.

Summary written from the posting.

What you’ll do

Design and operate production AI agents for Commerce Operations automation
Orchestrate LLM workflows, tool calling, RAG, and multi-agent communication
Build secure integrations with commerce platforms and enterprise data sources
Implement guardrails, evaluation, observability, deployment, and rollback capabilities

What you’ll bring

7+ years of software engineering experience in an enterprise environment
Production experience building and deploying LLM-powered or agentic AI applications
Strong Python skills and experience with LLM or agent frameworks
Expertise in RAG, prompt engineering, tool calling, agent orchestration, and workflow orchestration

Technologies

Python · LangGraph · LangChain · AutoGen · CrewAI · OpenAI SDK · Anthropic SDK · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · A2A · LangSmith

About Cisco

Provides networking, security, observability, collaboration and AI infrastructure software and hardware that connect and protect enterprises and service providers.

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Pay and conditions

Posted pay: $169,800–$297,400Annualized in US dollars
Pay details
The starting salary range posted for this position is $169,800.00 to $214,800.00 and reflects the projected salary range for new hires in this position in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including incentive compensation*, equity, or benefits. $203,000.00 - $297,400.00 $181,000.00 - $264,600.00
Location: Raleigh, NC
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Experience requirements: 7+ years

The work, as we read it

Kind of work: Internal deployment & tooling

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How this compares

The middle of this range is $234,000, above the $198,000 median for the 1,734 US FDE postings that state one. Half of those sit between $162,000 and $230,000.

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