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Cisco Development Organizations

Graduate Engineering Program

Imagine having the opportunity to evolve tomorrow's Internet technology today. A select number of the top graduates will do just that as they put their many study hours, endless creativity, and dreams to work in developing technology that will change the way the world works, lives, plays, and learns. If technology is your passion and software development excites you, then Cisco may be the place for you. As a Cisco engineer, you can choose to develop network technology in voice, security, switching, routing, optical, storage, wireless, and network management systems.

As a software engineer, you will support programming network features, device driver development, and new architecture of network equipment systems ranging from switches and routers to web services and voice-enabled network applications.

As a hardware engineer, you will define and design next-generation networking equipment through system- and board-level specification, board layout, and FPGA design or by designing and analyzing high-speed circuits.

Cisco Choice

Cisco Choice is a unique program for top engineering graduates. In this innovative program, you can create your dream job by choosing the technology area and business unit that best match your skill set and career goals. You also get to choose your manager. Our technology areas include:

• Wireless LAN
• Unified Communications (IP telephony and related technologies)
• Security
• Digital video
• Home networking
• Data center and storage networking
• Network management
• LAN switching
• IP routing

Product Marketing Manager

Imagine having the opportunity to evolve tomorrow's Internet technology today. A select number of top MBA students will do just that as they put their endless study hours, creativity, and dreams to work developing technology that will change the way people work, live, play, and learn.

Learn more:

• Cisco Choice Video

We are not actively recruiting for full-time positions due to the number of qualified interns who are being considered for these roles. Cisco’s internship program is the primary path to full-time opportunities.

Thank you for your interest and please continue to check back with us in the event that positions become available.

Consultative Sales Program

US Associate Sales Representatives

The Associate Sales Representative (ASR) graduate role is the start of a career path to a fully qualified Cisco Account Manager position. This is one of the lead client-facing roles within the Cisco sales teams, working with the Systems Engineering community to bring Cisco technology to our clients. ASRs primarily drive the client relationships, and bring the specialist technical knowledge of the engineering community to our customers. ASRs have a pivotal role in qualifying customer requirements, and developing and maintaining long-term partnerships with our valued customers.

US Associate Systems Engineer

The Associate System Engineer (ASE) graduate role is the start of a career path leading to a fully-qualified Cisco System Engineer position. This is a lead client-facing role within the Cisco sales team, working with the Account Management community in order to qualify the needs of our clients, develop solutions and manage relationships. ASEs are the technical specialists of our sales community. They work with our customers to ensure their technical needs are fully understood and met – if not exceeded – by our solutions. As an ASE you will have an opportunity to work with many leading Cisco technologies, as well as interact with our valued customers. In this way, you will become a trusted advisor, adding a business and client relationship context to your role.

Canada, Sales, Associate Sales Representative

Canada, Sales Associate Systems Engineer

Service Solutions Programs

Networks function better when services, together with products, create solutions that align to business needs and opportunities. The collaboration that joins Cisco services with skilled partners and customers delivers the best results that intelligently enable networks and applications, and benefit the people who use them.

Associate Network Consulting Engineer

In this program, you will receive the extensive training and work experience that you need to be a capable network consulting engineer. This career is ideal for people who can combine great technical expertise with good communication skills. In the Cisco Advanced Services team, you will work with the latest technologies and the best technical experts in the industry. Training is in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Associate Project Manager

In this full-time role, you can combine project leadership and communication skills while you also gain technical knowledge. Training is in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

Customer Support Engineer

As a customer support engineer, your main responsibility will be providing technical support for Cisco products, global networks, and applications to customers and partners by telephone and email. The positions are based in the Cisco Technical Assistance Center.

Central Marketing Organization

Grow your marketing career at Cisco, where our goal is to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. Work with world class technology marketers in a stimulating and collaborative environment.

For candidates graduating with an undergraduate degree, Cisco will be hiring Marketing Analysts in the following areas:

Small Business Marketing

The Small Business marketing team works with multiple business units to develop products and solutions for organizations with fewer than 250 employees. The marketing team analyzes and segments the market, develops strategies, market positioning, and messaging to differentiate Cisco’s solutions, and develops and executes global programs to drive sales.

Learn more:

• From the Vice President of Solutions Marketing, Rick Moran
• From the Director of Communications, Web Marketing - George Gutierrez
• From the Director of Small Business Solutions Marketing - Eren Hussein

World Wide Field Marketing (WWFM)

The WWFM organization is the primary interface between the San Jose based marketing groups and Cisco marketing organizations around the world. WWFM is responsible for working with Cisco marketing teams in countries to plan and execute marketing programs that generate demand for Cisco products and enable Cisco’s sales force and our channel partners to sell Cisco solutions. The WWFM organization also manages the Demand Center which creates and executes direct marketing for Cisco around the world.

For candidates graduating with an MBA degree Cisco will be hiring Marketing Managers in the following area:

World Wide Field Marketing (WWFM)

The WWFM organization is the primary interface between the San Jose based marketing groups and Cisco marketing organizations around the world. WWFM is responsible for working with Cisco marketing teams in countries to plan and execute marketing programs that generate demand for Cisco products and enable Cisco’s sales force and our channel partners to sell Cisco solutions. The WWFM organization also manages the Demand Center which creates and executes direct marketing for Cisco around the world.

Learn more about Worldwide Field Marketing from our leaders .

Hear from some recent MBA hires .

Strategic Services

The Strategic Services team is an integral part of the Strategic Marketing Organization in the Central Marketing Organization at Cisco. Strategic Marketing combines the disciplines of Market research, Competitive Intelligence and Customer insights. The Strategic Services organization was formed to link with these three disciplines to answer higher-level strategic questions around corporate, market and business unit strategy – acting as an internal strategy consulting firm with access to the deep talent and data pools of SMO.

Human Resources (HRLP)

The Human Resources Leadership Program (HRLP) is a multi-year accelerated career program designed to develop and enhance your business acumen, and knowledge of Cisco’s business and HR operations, by participating in multiple assignments throughout the Human Resource organization.

Human Resources Manager

Full-time professionals in the Human Resources Leadership Development Program (HRLP) will work in a dynamic, global, cross-functional environment. They will have multiple opportunities to champion projects that will add significant value to the business.

The HRLP full-time program provides an environment in which the participants will gain:

Experience: HRLP participants will rotate through several HR roles determined by their area of interest and current business needs. Participants will also have opportunities to drive several team-based projects and complete individual stretch assignments.

Exposure: Located at corporate headquarters in San Jose, California, participants will collaborate and interact with senior leadership, managers, cross-functional teams, and other HRLP professionals.

Education: In addition to core projects, participants will increase their skill level and business acumen by engaging in professional development workshops, function specific training, and business seminars led by world-class subject matter experts.

We are not actively recruiting for full-time positions due to the number of qualified interns who are being considered for these roles. Cisco’s internship program is the primary path to full-time opportunities.

Thank you for your interest and please continue to check back with us in the event that positions become available.

Finance Organization

Cisco’s Finance organization is a catalyst for leading business transformation to maximize company performance. As a key partner of Operations and the business, we ensure Cisco has the scale, flexibility and ability to grow infinitely. We are looking for talented individuals with strong communication and organization skills who thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Our successful open rotation program allows broad exposure to the overall Finance organization and its internal business partners, providing individuals with the unique opportunity to define one’s own career path, develop leadership skills, and make an impact.

Financial Analyst

In this role, undergraduates have the opportunity to work as a project manager or analyst for one of four business units within Finance: Internal Control Services, Customer Solutions Finance, Shared Services, or Business Operations Finance.

Finance Business Manager

We employ MBAs across a range of business units (e.g. Business Operations Finance, Corporate Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Customer Solutions Finance, Treasury) to provide long-term planning, financial analysis and support. In these functions, MBAs help drive decisions that influence the company’s global strategy and financial results.

Global Supply Chain Management

The Global Supply Chain Management organization takes Cisco innovation from the drawing board to the customer. Whether it's complex, high-end, configure-to-order products or high-volume commercial goods, we turn ideas into solutions. As part of the Operations, Processes, and Systems team, we are a global organization with employees in more than 50 locations worldwide.

We focus on effectively simplifying our supply chain, improving the new product introduction process, successfully managing our contract manufacturers, working with suppliers to find the best quality components at competitive prices, and creating inventive ways to recover value from returns - all while striving to positively impact Cisco's revenue.

This team has raised the bar for supply chain excellence, but now a new and even more challenging era has begun. We must continue to maintain delivery, improve quality and accelerate supply chain velocity, even as Cisco expands into new technologies, and geographies. It's an exciting time to be part of this team as we optimize the supply chain across multiple dimensions and stay ahead of the increasing complexity and changing marketplace.

To view additional positions within Global Supply Chain Management that will become available, please click the blue box to the right that says, “We are hiring. Apply Here”. Scroll down to U.S. & Canada Global Supply Chain Management and click on the position of interest.

Learn More:

• From a Talent Excellence Manager in GSCM - Catherine Mazur

We are not actively recruiting for full-time positions due to the number of qualified interns who are being considered for these roles. Cisco’s internship program is the primary path to full-time opportunities.

Thank you for your interest and please continue to check back with us in the event that positions become available.

Information Technology

Consider a career with Cisco Information Technology, where we are the company's first and best customer. Join the team that is at the forefront of the latest technology from the world's networking leader, a team that is a strategic partner with the company creating the enterprise network of the future.

Cisco offers a variety of roles within the information technology organization, with several entry-level positions that allow you to make a difference immediately. For example, IT engineers work within teams to deliver high-quality, comprehensive, and scalable software systems. IT analysts interact with business clients to assess clients' business needs and determine IT impact and project components, resulting in effective solutions. In both roles, new college graduates use creative problem solving to provide Cisco with essential business capabilities.

Information Technology Analyst

This position is available to undergraduate degree candidates. IT Analysts are the liaison between business clients and IT. In this role, you will develop a solid understanding of the client’s business, processes, operations and challenges. Through data analysis, you will translate business requirements into IT impacts and project components that result in high quality solutions. Click on the position name to learn more or apply.

IT offers two focus areas of Engineering: Business Applications and Computing & Operational Services.

Business Applications Developer

This position is available to undergraduate degree candidates. We are looking for a well-rounded team player who will partner with their IT team to deliver high-quality, robust and scalable software systems while learning and growing as individuals. Be a part of a global, established, and financially successful company that rewards good ideas and encourages personal empowerment. Click on the position name to learn more or apply.

Other Organizations

• Cisco Media Solutions Group
• Corporate Communications
• Corporate Quality Organization

Cisco Media Solutions Group

The Cisco Media Solutions Group is building an end-to-end platform solution that will fundamentally change consumers' entertainment experience. We are building an ecosystem where media-content owners can better interact with their audiences, and audience members can interact with one another.

Corporate Communications

Last year, our newly established Corporate Communications team began reshaping the perception of Cisco and the role of the network by creating a truly integrated communications strategy. During their first year as a team, they made great strides toward this goal, as evidenced by the positive external recognition of the "Network as the Platform" Cisco strategy, along with continued innovation in how Cisco leads communications and collaboration across its internal and external constituents.

Your talent and hard work can help the Cisco’s Corporate Communications team further its goal in creating a world class, integrated corporate communications function. You will help drive the conversations, both internally and externally, that support Cisco’s vision and aspirations and lead the industry in the use of collaboration and experience technologies to simplify, expedite and amplify Cisco’s communications strategy.

Corporate Quality Organization

At Cisco, we take pride in our commitment to customer success. Two critical components of this success are delivering high-quality and helping to ensure that our processes and procedures are performed with consistency and excellence.

We are not actively recruiting for full-time positions due to the number of qualified interns who are being considered for these roles. Cisco’s internship program is the primary path to full-time opportunities.

Thank you for your interest and please continue to check back with us in the event that positions become available.