Engineering Product Manager

Meet the Team

Our Nexus & AI Networking team delivers innovative solutions that empower enterprises, cloud providers, and Neoclouds to unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence and next-generation data center architectures.  As a Senior Product Manager for the Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric product line, you will join a team of subject matter authorities, working on ground-breaking data center networking fabric architectures and AI infrastructure. As a trusted executive advisor, you will collaborate across engineering, product management, sales, and the broader industry ecosystem to build the future of AI networking.

Your Impact

In this role, you will be a senior technical and commercial product management voice behind Cisco’s Nexus Hyperfabric, Nexus 9000, and AI Networking Fabric solutions. Your work will directly influence product roadmaps, company positioning, and go-to-market strategies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define, validate, and publish authoritative reference architectures for AI/ML training fabrics, VXLAN/EVPN, and HPC/ML/AI infrastructure (e.g. at Neoclouds).
• Function as an expert and advisor to product management and engineering, identifying market whitespace and championing strategic Hyperfabric AI product requirements.
• Author landmark technical publications and represent Cisco at premier industry events (e.g., Cisco Live, OCP Summit, GTC).
• Lead deep-dive technical briefings for strategic global accounts and build long-term relationships with ecosystem partners like NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline (PhD is a plus) or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of product management experience in data center networking, systems engineering, product engineering, pre-sales engineering, or technical marketing.
• 2+ years of expert-level proficiency in VXLAN, EVPN, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, Segment Routing, and data center fabric build at scale.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE v2), GPUDirect RDMA, GPU cluster interconnect design, and/or lossless Ethernet fabric design.
• Direct experience with AI infrastructure platforms  and/or cloud native networking, DPDK, Kubernetes and/or service mesh architectures.
• CCNP/CCIE or similar expert-level industry certifications are a plus.

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. 

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you. 

Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location, market conditions, job-related skillset, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and/or training. The full salary range for certain locations is listed below. For locations not listed below, the recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance. Please see the Cisco careers site to discover more benefits and perks.  Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.

U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies:

• 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 employees** receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees

• Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)

• 80 hours of sick time off provided 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

• 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

For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.

Employees on sales plans earn performance-based incentive pay on top of their base salary, which is split between quota and non-quota components, subject to the applicable Cisco plan. For quota-based incentive pay, Cisco typically pays as follows:

• .75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

• 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%; and

• Once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay 0% up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

The applicable full salary ranges for this position, by specific state, are listed below:

New York City Metro Area:

Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:

* For quota-based sales roles on Cisco’s sales plan, the ranges provided in this posting include base pay and sales target incentive compensation combined.

** Employees in Illinois, whether exempt or non-exempt, will participate in a unique time off program to meet local requirements.