2 days ago
Durham, NC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$129k - $185k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement security controls for LLM-based applications, RAG pipelines, and agent-driven workflows.
- Identify and mitigate AI-specific threats, including prompt injection, data exfiltration, insecure tool usage, and model abuse.
- Establish guardrails for prompt handling, input/output validation, and safe tool invocation.
- Secure RAG pipelines through data access controls, source integrity protections, and retrieval boundary enforcement.
- Define and enforce model access controls, API protections, and runtime monitoring.
- Integrate security into model deployment pipelines and inference services with AI platform and infrastructure teams.
- Conduct threat modeling and security assessments covering AI lifecycles, data pipelines, and inference endpoints.
- Build automated detection and response mechanisms for anomalous queries, unsafe outputs, and other AI-specific risks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a cybersecurity-related field, or equivalent certifications along with work experience.
- At least 3 years of experience in application security, cloud security, or platform security engineering.
- Hands-on experience securing distributed systems or cloud-native applications using Kubernetes, APIs, and microservices.
- Experience designing and implementing authentication, authorization, and data protection controls.
- Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Go, or a similar language for security tooling and automation.
- Cybersecurity background and operational experience are preferred.
- ISC2 certifications such as CISSP or CCSP, or ISACA certifications such as SSCP, CC, CISA, or CISM, are preferred.
Benefits
- Starting salary range of $128,600.00 to $184,900.00, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Benefits may include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions, paid parental leave, disability coverage, basic life insurance, and restricted stock units.
- Paid time off includes holidays, personal wellness days, sick time, vacation or flexible vacation, birthday time off, year-end shutdown, and optional paid volunteer days.
- Non-sales employees may be eligible for annual bonuses subject to Cisco policies.
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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.