Solutions Engineer, Routing & Switching - Meta - San Jose, CA

We change the World, you will become passionate about your employer and the brand you represent. Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more meaningful than ever before in our lives. Our employees' groundbreaking ideas impact everything. Here, that means we take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real world impact. You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting the unconnected. You'll be part a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you'll take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired.

What You'll Do: You will partner with our Account Executives in a pre-sales technical role and design products to meet specific Meta needs.

• You will work with extremely dynamic Meta engineers to understand their future needs of their Production Data Center Network that powers their social media applications.
• You will collaborate with BU and CX teams to drive innovative product offerings for the Meta Production Data Center to meet Meta's insatiable drive for capacity growth.
• You will act in an increasingly consultative fashion and looked to as a trusted technical adviser, in your field by the account team and customers.
• You will keep up-to-date on relevant competitors solutions, products and services.
• You will assist with the development of formal sales plans and proposals for assigned opportunities.
• Most importantly, you will learn cutting edge DC technologies and contribute with requirements to develop products that have not yet been conceived/formalized.

Who You Are: Passionate about leading/learning from new initiatives and multi-functional projects that provide immense benefit and are critical for the organization's success. Self-starter who can work on sophisticated processes and can collaborate closely with multi-functional teams in an effective manner to derive timely results. Besides being results oriented, you possess phenomenal attention to detail and ready to engage with Meta engineers on an ongoing basis to understand their issues/concerns and optimally translate them to functional requirements for our Engineering Team.

You are passionate about the customer experience and excited to learn new technology. You are a true teammate and love to learn from a senior mentor that will be assigned to groom you to be a Data Center AI Networking expert.

Our minimum requirements for this role:

• You have excellent written and verbal communication, listening, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Confirmed technical knowledge and consultative skills.
• 4+ years-related pre-sales experience preferred (less will be considered).
• Passion to learn cutting edge technologies.
• Typically requires BS/BA (EE/CS) or equivalent.