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Staff Solutions Engineer - FDSE
Remote - New York, USA · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$266k-$343kDetected 21 hours ago
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Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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Green-card follow-through: 93%
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About the role
- The application window is expected to close on: 11/19/2026 This role can be performed anywhere in the United States.
- The application window is expected to close on Nov 20, 2026 NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Responsibilities
- Cisco is looking for an accomplished, AI skilled, hands-on, experienced, and visionary Forward Deployed Solution Engineer (FDSE) with post-sales and/or pre-sales experience to leverage AI to build, scale, and lead customer business outcomes.
- Singular focus as an embedded engineer is to influence technical decision markers by strategically accelerating customer business outcomes, compressing time to value, and delivering tangible proof to drive durable growth through customer retention and growth.
- Collaborate directly with Cisco product engineering teams to provide field-level insights, helping evolve our AI-integrated portfolio to meet the next generation of infrastructure demands.
- Sitting at the intersection of the most powerful and complete AI solution in the world with the Cisco portfolio powered by the Splunk Data Platform, our team is poised to lead the market and set the standard for AI excellence.
- This team will work closely with Sales, Product and Technology, Software Development, Customer Success and Partners to maximize customer focus, leveraging the power of Cisco team and portfolio to exceed expectations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical engineering experience.
- AI experience realizing customer business outcomes with fast time to value
Nice to have
- 7+ year track record of leading technical customer-facing engagements handling ambiguous, high-impact enterprise projects
- 5+ years Cisco and Splunk experience and/or equivalent from a top competitor
- Ability to articulate how AI and automation can be leveraged to solve complex business problems and achieve rapid ROI.
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- 1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;
- 1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%
- Narrative skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between deep technical AI implementation and executive-level business requirements.
Compensation
- The starting salary range posted for this position is $266,100.00 to $342,900.00 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 benef
Benefits
- Mentor and collaborate with a world-class team of Forward Deployed Solution Engineers. foster a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, customer obsession, and high ownership.
Company info
- At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond.
- These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
- We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
- The Cisco Forward Deployed Solutions Engineering (FDSE) team is a high-impact, elite hands-on engineering team that works directly alongside our most strategic global customers based in Americas to lead the AI transformation with an industry or government entity lens.
- The goal is to leverage the power of AI to co-develop, innovate, integrate and show art of the possible solutions exceeding our customers' most critical business outcomes with fast time to value to prototype for future production environments.
- This is a critical team of AI thought leaders operating in a high-velocity, collaborative community of senior software engineers, solution architects, and data platform engineers who thrive in agile, customer-embedded sprint environments.
This listing is sourced directly from Cisco's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.