After completing her graduate degree, in 2011 Cid began a tenure-track position teaching at Dallas College North Lake Campus in Irving, Texas, and training their faculty on physics education. After six months there, she then accepted a post-doctoral position with the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, with Lillian McDermott. She worked at the Physics Education Group for three and a half years, and while there became involved with tutoring members of the Indigenous community in Seattle; holding workshops for the UW Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS); and volunteering with other groups supporting minority students.