Cisco—Technical Marketing Engineer

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Description: Meet the Team Join Cisco’s wireless Technical Marketing Engineering (TME) team and play a critical role in the rapid growth and expansion of our wireless networking business. We are the industry leader in wireless, heavily focused on leveraging agentic AI for customer issues and field enablement. You will work with wireless specialists within the wireless TME team, setting up equipment to support enablement labs, test environments, and work with our product managers, marketing teams, and our field sales organizations to grow the wireless business, support new applications and customer environments, with opportunities to grow within the wireless team in to specialty areas emerging as the latest in AI-centric features evolve. Your Impact As a wireless Technical Marketing Engineer, you will be a subject matter expert in multiple wireless technologies (cloud and on-prem), diving deep into the product and architectural vision. You will work with product management, engineering, and marketing teams to build large-scale architectural solutions and develop strategies to enable Cisco’s field sales and partners. - Promote product value by crafting compelling technical stories and detailing how things work. - Setting up lab systems to support enablement, training, and educational activities that will evolve over time - Supporting large test environments and operations as part of the overall product development with product managers and engineering - Guide the creation of field and customer-facing technical collateral, including technical white papers, architectural guides, deployment guides, and methodology documents. - Train and collaborate with sales teams on technical products, helping them grow accounts and sell access points (APs). Minimum Qualifications - Have 5+ years of experience in Wi-Fi testing or operations within enterprise wireless and networking solutions - Strong foundation in the fundamentals of computer networking (VLANs, DHCP, TCP, UDP, VoIP) - Strong foundation of 802.11 wireless standards, channels, and specs on 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz - Good understanding of customer deployments and applying those learnings to in-house testing and validations, collateral creation, etc - Practical communication skills and proven track record of collaboration with stakeholders. Preferred Qualifications - BS/MS in Computer Networking, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience - Experience in product performance testing or QA - Experience in configuring enterprise wireless access points (HPE, Juniper, Arista, etc) - Experience with AI-based tools for workflow optimizations - Experience in working with Jenkins and Jira - Proficiency in writing quality code with one of the programming or scripting languages such as Ruby, Python, etc 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. Disclaimer To ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. Please be advised that any communication from Cisco about careers will: - be in direct response to an application you have submitted through the company career site - begin with screening or an interview - originate from a Cisco email address, and - be conducted across email, phone, or WebEx Cisco will never make a job offer without conducting an interview process or ask you for money in any way. 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Skills: wi-fi testing, enterprise wireless networking, 802.11 standards, computer networking fundamentals, vlans, dhcp, tcp, udp, voip, 2.4ghz wireless, 5ghz wireless, 6ghz wireless, lab system setup, test environment operations, product performance testing, qa, enterprise wireless access point configuration, hpe, juniper, arista, ai-based workflow optimization, jenkins, jira, technical collateral creation, technical white paper writing, architectural guidance, deployment guide development, methodology documentation, collaboration with sales teams, programming or scripting languages