7 days ago
Base Salary
$214k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build systems combining security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to identify and predict threats.
- Prototype and test AI features for event decoding, environment understanding, anomaly prediction, and threat prediction with security experts and researchers.
- Develop AIDevOps pipelines for rapid experimentation with data, knowledge bases, models, and context memory using measurable evaluation criteria.
- Architect and build a distributed platform that correlates trillions of events and signals into explainable findings and alerts.
- Collaborate with product and platform teams to create scalable AI-enhanced threat detection and prediction workflows.
- Contribute to the architecture of AI-native security operations and trusted enterprise automation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of related experience or master’s degree with 8+ years of related experience.
- Experience working with endpoint logs, network traffic, authentication events, or cloud audit trails in detection and investigation workflows.
- Experience implementing data platforms, data lakes, or data warehouses.
- Experience building pipelines to ingest, parse, and normalize large-scale security telemetry.
- Experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows in Python.
- Experience designing agent systems that perform coding tasks.
- Preferred experience with TDIR/SIEM architectures, correlation searches, threat hunting systems, Splunk APIs or the Splunk platform, and security operations automation.
- Hands-on experience developing RAG or GraphRAG pipelines with databases such as FAISS or Pinecone.
- Experience crafting, testing, and optimizing training workloads for models such as GNNs, GCNs, and GATs, ideally including shipped AI-powered features.
- Experience designing experiments to evaluate model accuracy, usability, performance, and cost.
Benefits
- The posted starting salary range is $214,100.00 to $309,800.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid time off includes holidays, floating and personal wellness days, birthday and year-end shutdown time, vacation or flexible vacation, sick time, and eligible family emergency leave.
- Employees may receive up to 10 paid volunteer days per year.
Tech Stack
PythonSplunk
Categories
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.