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.

• 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.

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.

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.

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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…