3 days ago
Calgary, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$229k - $289k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define architectures for AI-native network and security operations platforms spanning observability, assurance, incident intelligence, threat analysis, optimization, and automation.
- Integrate LLMs and agentic workflows with network telemetry, topology, configurations, events, alerts, logs, and operational knowledge.
- Build capabilities for anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, performance prediction, incident triage, threat investigation, and guided remediation.
- Develop network and security world models and closed-loop automation for detection, investigation, policy recommendations, and safe remediation.
- Build large-scale telemetry, time-series, graph, log, and event-processing pipelines for real-time inference.
- Apply RAG, domain adaptation, evaluation, and grounding techniques to create reliable AI assistants.
- Develop cloud-native platform capabilities using Kubernetes, microservices, and multi-cloud architectures.
- Lead execution from architecture and experimentation through production deployment, reliability, and scale.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to translate AI innovation into customer-facing networking and security operations products.
- Lead and mentor engineers and researchers across AI, networking, security operations, cloud platforms, and distributed systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of related experience, master's degree with 7+ years of related experience, or PhD with 5+ years of related experience.
- 12+ years of experience in AI/ML, platform engineering, distributed systems, agentic applications in networking, security operations, or related fields.
- Experience working with large-scale operational data including metrics, logs, events, alerts, traces, topology, configurations, and unstructured data.
- Experience programming in C++, Go, Java, and/or Python.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with agentic AI, network or security operations, autonomous infrastructure, intent-based networking, closed-loop automation, network observability, SecOps, security analytics, SIEM/SOAR workflows, cloud security operations, multimodal learning, world models, graph ML, causal inference, RAG, and time-series modeling.
- Preferred qualifications also include technical leadership, published research or patents, real-time inference, anomaly detection, threat analysis, intelligent automation, and production-scale cloud-native distributed systems experience.
Benefits
- Starting salary range is $228,700.00 to $289,000.00, with location-specific ranges of $296,300.00 to $431,000.00 for the New York City Metro Area and $263,700.00 to $383,500.00 for non-metro New York state and Washington state.
- Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, basic life insurance, restricted stock unit grants, paid holidays, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, wellness days, volunteer days, and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- The position is available in U.S. and/or Canada locations; additional compensation and benefits depend on hiring location and eligibility.
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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.