22 hours ago
Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build systems combining security data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to identify and predict threats.
- Prototype and test AI features for decoding environments, detecting anomalies, and predicting threats with security subject-matter experts and researchers.
- Develop AI experimentation and DevOps pipelines for data, knowledge bases, models, context memory, and 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 on scalable AI-enhanced threat detection and prediction workflows for analysts.
- Contribute to the architecture of AI-native security operations and trusted enterprise automation.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of related experience or master's degree with 6+ years of related experience.
- Experience designing and implementing distributed systems, particularly storage systems and storage access layers.
- Experience implementing data platforms, data lakes, or data warehouses.
- Proficiency building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows in Python.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub or GitLab, Jira, and automated testing frameworks.
- Experience designing agent systems that perform coding tasks.
- Experience collaborating with product managers, security SMEs, and engineers.
- Experience with security telemetry such as endpoint logs, network traffic, authentication events, or cloud audit trails and their use in detection and investigation.
- Preferred experience building pipelines to ingest, parse, and normalize large-scale security telemetry.
- Preferred familiarity with TDIR/SIEM architectures, correlation searches, threat-hunting systems, Splunk APIs or internals, or the Splunk platform.
- Preferred security operations knowledge covering attack surface management, threat analytics, detection, triage, investigation, and response, or equivalent Tier 3 SOC experience.
- Preferred experience with event storage systems, custom cybersecurity embeddings, RAG or GraphRAG pipelines, FAISS, or Pinecone.
- Preferred experience crafting, testing, and optimizing workloads for large language or special-purpose models such as GNNs, GCNs, and GATs.
- Preferred experience shipping AI-powered features and evaluating model accuracy, usability, performance, cost, trust, and analyst decision support.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available subject to plan eligibility.
- Cisco offers a 401(k) plan with matching contribution, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses subject to company policies.
- Paid time off includes holidays, personal wellness days, sick time, vacation or flexible vacation depending on employee classification, and optional paid volunteer days.
- Additional paid time away may be requested for critical or emergency family issues.
Tech Stack
PythonSplunk
Categories
About Cisco
Cisco is the worldwide technology leader that is revolutionizing the way organizations connect and protect in the AI era. For more than 40 years, Cisco has securely connected the world. With its industry leading AI-powered solutions and services, Cisco enables its customers, partners and communities to unlock innovation, enhance productivity and strengthen digital resilience. With purpose at its core, Cisco remains committed to creating a more connected and inclusive future for all.