2 days ago
Base Salary
$214k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-team Agentic SOC capabilities from concept through measurable production improvement.
- Design and build reusable agent runtime, orchestration, governed tool-use, context, memory, evaluation, trace-analysis, and quality-gate capabilities.
- Translate SOC, SIEM, detection, incident, investigation, and response needs into shared mechanisms.
- Design agents for grounded reasoning, planning, delegation, human oversight, traceability, auditability, and safe failure handling.
- Define AI success metrics covering task completion, groundedness, tool-use correctness, trajectory quality, human intervention, safety, latency, cost, and reliability.
- Establish metrics-driven development using golden datasets, offline and online evaluations, production traces, feedback, experiments, and regression gates.
- Architect software for public cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments.
- Establish identity propagation, authorization, tenant isolation, policy enforcement, privacy, auditability, and permission-aware action patterns.
- Diagnose failures across models, prompts, tools, data, orchestration, services, infrastructure, and product integrations.
- Remain hands-on in implementation and design reviews while mentoring and influencing senior engineers.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience developing, testing, and/or operating production software.
- Experience building and/or operating large-scale distributed or AI-enabled production systems.
- Programming experience with Python or Go.
- A bachelor's degree with 10 years of related experience, a master's degree with 6 years of related experience, or a PhD with 3 years of related experience.
- Experience with LLM and agentic-system concepts such as grounding, planning, tool use, memory, human oversight, evaluation, tracing, and regression analysis.
- Experience defining AI metrics, building evaluation and experimentation loops, and connecting offline results to production behavior and customer outcomes.
- Experience delivering software across public cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, or air-gapped environments.
- Familiarity with SOC, SIEM, detections, incidents, investigations, response, identity, policy, privacy, and auditability.
- Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives, adopting shared technologies, mentoring senior engineers, and using AI responsibly throughout the software development lifecycle.
Benefits
- Hybrid work with an on-site requirement in the San Jose or San Francisco offices.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional paid volunteer days.
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About Cisco
Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.