Software Engineering Technical Leader
- Location
- Milpitas, California, US
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
This is an onsite position based out of Miliptas, CA.
Meet the Team Cisco Node Visuals (CNV) builds interactive network and geographic visualizations for Cisco products. We help users understand complex enterprise network data across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Our engineering team combines expertise in GPU-accelerated graphics, mathematics, and algorithm development. We follow an InnerSource model to share code, exchange ideas, and build reusable capabilities across Cisco organizations. Every team member works as a forward-deployed engineer, partnering directly with product teams to solve network and geographic visualization challenges.
Your Impact Lead CNV architecture and delivery, from design through deployment, to build secure, reusable visualization capabilities that Cisco enterprise product teams adopt. Build high-performance 2D and 3D network and geographic views for cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments without runtime access to external mapping services. Develop and optimize algorithms for topology layout, rendering, aggregation, animation, navigation, and spatial interaction for large, dynamic datasets. Set engineering standards and use tests and performance benchmarks to verify improvements in rendering speed, memory use, startup time, and interaction latency. Guide technical priorities, mentor engineers, and influence product strategy through hands-on development, technical reviews, and contributions to Cisco’s intellectual-property portfolio.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in any engineering discipline.
- 7+ years of frontend engineering experience architecting and delivering web applications, libraries, or frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with WebGL2, GPU-accelerated graphics, or comparable real-time rendering technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience developing mapping, GIS, geospatial analytics, or location-based visualization software using geographic coordinate systems, coordinate transformations, map projections, vector-map data, GeoJSON, polygon triangulation, and spatial indexing.
- Experience designing performance-critical algorithms and applying graph theory, linear algebra, computational geometry, and mathematical optimization.
- Experience with shader programming, graphics buffers, textures, batching, GPU resource management, and CPU, GPU, memory, and browser performance profiling.
- Experience building reusable visualization frameworks or developer-facing APIs, with familiarity with HTML Canvas, SVG, accessibility, and enterprise design systems.
- Experience owning technical architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading distributed or multidisciplinary teams through cross-functional collaboration.
Why Cisco? 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.
Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:
The starting salary range posted for this position is $186,900.00 to $267,700.00 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. 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: $186,900.00 - $307,800.00 Non-Metro New York state & Washington state: $166,300.00 - $274,100.00 * 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.
From Cisco Systems's careers page (Workday), checked 30 Oct 2026.
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Posted 29 Oct 2026 · checked 30 Oct 2026 · Report this job