Lead Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer

🕒 September 9

🏄 California, Colorado, +3 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $266.1k - $342.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔍 Pre-sales Engineer

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Cisco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🔧 Hardware

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

Hardware • Security • Enterprise

Cisco is a multinational technology company that provides networking hardware, software, and services to enterprises, service providers, and governments. It builds routers, switches, optical transceivers, programmable silicon, and edge computing platforms, and offers security, collaboration (Webex), observability, and AI-enabled software and support services to help organizations design, operate, and secure large-scale networks and data centers. Cisco also delivers professional services, training, and cloud-managed solutions to support digital transformation and AI-ready infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop a team of senior individual-contributor Systems Engineers • Coach and grow the team, attract and retain technical talent, and build a culture of technical excellence • Set the regional architectural point of view across routing, optical, automation, and assurance • Partner with the Americas I&MI sales leader on technical and business strategy, resourcing, and execution • Guide solution architecture for AI/ML fabrics, mass-scale routing, data center interconnect, and converged IP+Optical networks • Represent the business in executive-level customer engagements, proofs of concept, and competitive bake-offs • Serve as the senior technical leader and CTO-equivalent counterpart to the Americas I&MI sales leader • Act as the primary technical bridge to the Business Unit and global sales technical leaders • Feed customer and market requirements into the product roadmap

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in technical pre-sales, systems engineering, or network architecture • At least 3 years of people leadership experience • Deep expertise in service provider or mass-scale / AI networking • Expertise in large-scale BGP, IP/MPLS, and modern transport architectures • Proven ability to engage with senior internal executive stakeholders, Principal Engineers, Chief Architects, and CTOs at large, sophisticated customers • Experience with Webscale, Hyperscale, CSP, large financial enterprises, or U.S. Federal customers preferred • Knowledge of Segment Routing (SR-MPLS/SRv6), coherent optics/DWDM, and Routed Optical Networking preferred • Familiarity with AI/ML fabric design and large-scale GPU cluster networking preferred • Understanding of disaggregated/open networking models and network automation preferred • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution • Paid parental leave • Short- and long-term disability coverage • Basic life insurance • Cisco restricted stock unit grants may be available, vesting following continued employment • 10 paid holidays per full calendar year • 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees • 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday • Paid year-end holiday shutdown • 4 paid days off for personal wellness • 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year for non-exempt employees • Flexible vacation time off program with no defined limit for eligible exempt employees • 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter • Up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward • Additional paid time away for critical or emergency family issues • Optional 10 paid volunteer days per full calendar year • Annual bonuses for non-sales roles, subject to Cisco’s policies • Performance-based incentive pay for employees on sales plans • Cisco careers site benefits and perks