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Senior Data Science Engineer roles qualify for STEM OPT when your degree falls under an eligible CIP code in computer science, statistics, or a related STEM field. Your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify, and the 24-month extension gives you up to 36 months total to build experience, clear H-1B visa cap-gap, and transition to long-term sponsorship.
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Please note this posting is to advertise potential job opportunities. This exact role may not be open today but could open in the near future. When you apply, a Cisco representative may contact you directly if a relevant position opens.
Meet the team
Join the Enterprise Security team! We focus on understanding our performance and the value we deliver to customers by building reliable dashboards and providing clear financial analysis. We partner with Finance, Cloud Operations, and Engineering to guide the product roadmap and improve our daily operations. We want someone to lead these projects and connect with teams across the entire organization. How would you like to help us build our data strategy?
Your impact
As a Data Science Engineer II, you will lead the development of dashboards, automated reporting, and customer analysis. By analyzing business and product data, we examine costs and margins to prepare accurate forecasts. Success means delivering insights that stakeholders depend on for critical business choices. The work involves validating data, monitoring key metrics, and identifying trends to guide leadership decisions. We are eager to have someone translate product usage and financial trends into clear, actionable recommendations!
- Analyze business and product data to build and maintain dashboards that track 5+ key Enterprise Security metrics.
- Perform detailed cost and margin analysis to provide insights across 10+ customer groups.
- Automate recurring reports and data workflows to improve efficiency while partnering with Product and Engineering to validate data integrity for roadmap planning.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Meet one of the following (completed within the past 3 years or expected to be completed within the next 12 months):
A Master's degree with 0 years of work experience; or
A Bachelor's degree with 2 years of work experience.
Qualifying education and work experience should be in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or a related field.
- Excel proficiency with 2+ years of experience in data analysis, forecasting, dashboarding, and reporting.
- Experience with data validation using SQL or similar tools for large datasets.
- Analytical problem-solving experience with at least 2 projects involving complex data sets.
- Experience explaining findings to non-technical partners in at least 2 professional settings.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with SQL, BI or visualization tools like Tableau or PowerBI, and reporting automation scripts.
- Familiarity with COGS, gross-margin analysis, cloud operations, or financial forecasting for SaaS products.
- Communication and teamwork skills, with experience partnering with Finance, Product, Cloud Operations, and Engineering departments.
- Ability to translate product usage, token consumption, or COGS trends into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Proven record of maintaining data quality, reporting accuracy, and meeting project deadlines consistently.
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:
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:
$137,500.00 - $200,500.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$122,600.00 - $178,400.00
- 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.
INTRODUCTION
Please note this posting is to advertise potential job opportunities. This exact role may not be open today but could open in the near future. When you apply, a Cisco representative may contact you directly if a relevant position opens.
Meet the team
Join the Enterprise Security team! We focus on understanding our performance and the value we deliver to customers by building reliable dashboards and providing clear financial analysis. We partner with Finance, Cloud Operations, and Engineering to guide the product roadmap and improve our daily operations. We want someone to lead these projects and connect with teams across the entire organization. How would you like to help us build our data strategy?
Your impact
As a Data Science Engineer II, you will lead the development of dashboards, automated reporting, and customer analysis. By analyzing business and product data, we examine costs and margins to prepare accurate forecasts. Success means delivering insights that stakeholders depend on for critical business choices. The work involves validating data, monitoring key metrics, and identifying trends to guide leadership decisions. We are eager to have someone translate product usage and financial trends into clear, actionable recommendations!
- Analyze business and product data to build and maintain dashboards that track 5+ key Enterprise Security metrics.
- Perform detailed cost and margin analysis to provide insights across 10+ customer groups.
- Automate recurring reports and data workflows to improve efficiency while partnering with Product and Engineering to validate data integrity for roadmap planning.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Meet one of the following (completed within the past 3 years or expected to be completed within the next 12 months):
A Master's degree with 0 years of work experience; or
A Bachelor's degree with 2 years of work experience.
Qualifying education and work experience should be in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or a related field.
- Excel proficiency with 2+ years of experience in data analysis, forecasting, dashboarding, and reporting.
- Experience with data validation using SQL or similar tools for large datasets.
- Analytical problem-solving experience with at least 2 projects involving complex data sets.
- Experience explaining findings to non-technical partners in at least 2 professional settings.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with SQL, BI or visualization tools like Tableau or PowerBI, and reporting automation scripts.
- Familiarity with COGS, gross-margin analysis, cloud operations, or financial forecasting for SaaS products.
- Communication and teamwork skills, with experience partnering with Finance, Product, Cloud Operations, and Engineering departments.
- Ability to translate product usage, token consumption, or COGS trends into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Proven record of maintaining data quality, reporting accuracy, and meeting project deadlines consistently.
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:
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:
$137,500.00 - $200,500.00
Non-Metro New York state & Washington state:
$122,600.00 - $178,400.00
- 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.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding STEM OPT Authorization as a Senior Data Science Engineer
Verify your CIP code before applying
Check that your degree's CIP code appears on the DHS STEM OPT designated degree program list. Computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics codes commonly support Senior Data Science Engineer roles, but data-adjacent business degrees may not qualify without a secondary STEM credential.
Confirm E-Verify enrollment before accepting offers
Ask recruiters directly whether the hiring entity, not just the parent company, is enrolled in E-Verify. Subsidiaries and staffing intermediaries sometimes operate under separate Employer Identification Numbers, so E-Verify enrollment at the wrong entity level can invalidate your STEM OPT extension.
File your I-983 training plan before day one
Your DSO must sign the I-983 before you start work. For Senior Data Science Engineer roles, map your training goals to specific project deliverables, model development cycles, and mentorship structures. A vague plan risks SEVP audit findings that can jeopardize your authorization.
Target employers with H-1B filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Senior Data Science Engineer roles by employers whose DOL Labor Condition Application history shows consistent STEM sponsorship. This removes companies that hire OPT students as short-term contractors but decline to support the H-1B transition you'll need before your 36 months run out.
Use OFLC Wage Search to benchmark your offer
Look up the prevailing wage for your SOC code and geographic area in OFLC Wage Search before negotiating. Your employer's LCA must certify at least the prevailing wage level, so an offer below that threshold is a compliance problem, not just a negotiation issue.
Start cap-gap planning at 24 months, not 36
If your employer files an H-1B petition before your STEM OPT expires and you're selected in the lottery, cap-gap rules extend your work authorization through September 30. Submit all supporting documents to USCIS promptly so there's no gap between your OPT end date and the H-1B start date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Data Science Engineer role qualify for STEM OPT?
Yes, if your degree is listed on the DHS STEM OPT designated degree program list under an eligible CIP code, and the role requires that STEM knowledge in a direct, substantive way. Degrees in computer science, statistics, data science, and applied mathematics commonly support this role. Check your I-20 to confirm the CIP code your DSO recorded, because that code, not your job title, determines eligibility.
What E-Verify requirement applies to my STEM OPT employer?
Your employer must be actively enrolled in E-Verify at the specific worksite location where you'll work. Enrollment at a parent company or affiliated entity doesn't satisfy the requirement if you're employed by a subsidiary with a different EIN. Verify enrollment status directly with your recruiter or HR contact before signing an offer letter, since working for a non-enrolled employer voids your STEM OPT extension.
What goes into the I-983 training plan for a data science role?
The I-983 must describe the practical training goals, the skills you'll develop, and how those skills connect to your STEM degree. For a Senior Data Science Engineer position, this typically includes objectives around machine learning model development, data pipeline architecture, experimental design, and performance evaluation. Your employer's authorized representative and your DSO both sign the form, and it must be completed before your first day of work.
How does cap-gap work if I'm on STEM OPT and selected in the H-1B lottery?
If your employer files a timely H-1B petition on your behalf and USCIS selects it in the lottery, cap-gap automatically extends your work authorization from your OPT end date through September 30 of that year. Your H-1B then takes effect October 1. You can continue working during the cap-gap period as long as the petition remains pending or approved. Keep your I-20 and EAD documents current throughout this window.
Where can I find Senior Data Science Engineer jobs with verified STEM OPT sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists Senior Data Science Engineer roles filtered for employers enrolled in E-Verify and with documented STEM sponsorship history based on DOL Labor Condition Application data. You can also cross-reference the O*NET profile for this occupation to identify the SOC code and confirm that your target roles align with your degree's CIP code before applying.