Staff Solutions Engineer - FDSE - Splunk

The application window is expected to close on: 11/19/2026 This role can be performed anywhere in the United States. The application window is expected to close on Nov 20, 2026 NOTE: Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This role can be performed anywhere in the United States.

Meet the Team The Cisco Forward Deployed Solutions Engineering (FDSE) team is a high-impact, elite hands-on engineering team that works directly alongside our most strategic global customers based in Americas to lead the AI transformation with an industry or government entity lens.

The goal is to leverage the power of AI to co-develop, innovate, integrate and show art of the possible solutions exceeding our customers' most critical business outcomes with fast time to value to prototype for future production environments.

Sitting at the intersection of the most powerful and complete AI solution in the world with the Cisco portfolio powered by the Splunk Data Platform, our team is poised to lead the market and set the standard for AI excellence.

This team will work closely with Sales, Product and Technology, Software Development, Customer Success and Partners to maximize customer focus, leveraging the power of Cisco team and portfolio to exceed expectations.

This is a critical team of AI thought leaders operating in a high-velocity, collaborative community of senior software engineers, solution architects, and data platform engineers who thrive in agile, customer-embedded sprint environments.

Your Impact Cisco is looking for an accomplished, AI skilled, hands-on, experienced, and visionary Forward Deployed Solution Engineer (FDSE) with post-sales and/or pre-sales experience to leverage AI to build, scale, and lead customer business outcomes.

Compress customer time-to-value by architecting and proto-typing art of the possible solutions with the customer uniquely leveraging Cisco AI infrastructure and the Splunk portfo