2 days ago
Base Salary
$202k - $272k/yr
Responsibilities
- Author and evolve security standards, threat models, architecture patterns, and requirements for AI-native features.
- Set security standards for coding assistants and agent-authored code, including provenance, human review, accountability, and automated CI/CD security gates.
- Lead secure AI architecture reviews and define reusable patterns and measurable release criteria across Cisco platforms.
- Own coverage for AI abuse, adversarial risks, and model and data supply-chain provenance.
- Advance red-team strategies, evaluation harnesses, post-deployment standards, and incident criteria for AI-specific failure modes.
- Advise senior engineering and product leadership and align product security, AI platform, SecOps, privacy, and legal stakeholders.
- Drive outcomes through technical expertise, codified standards, and influence without direct reports.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in software security with hands-on experience architecting and securing AI/ML-integrated systems.
- Experience with Python, CI/CD automation, evaluation harnesses, agentic workflows, and security tooling.
- Experience securing AI models and applications against prompt injection, excessive agency, data leakage, and privacy risks.
- Strong background in threat modeling, secure software development lifecycles, and architecture validation for large-scale, multi-platform ecosystems.
- Ability to quantify security risk and provide authoritative technical guidance across multiple teams or business units.
- Experience operating as a principal-level technical authority without direct reports.
- Preferred experience with autonomous agents, tool-calling, multi-agent orchestration, MCP-style integrations, and AI red-team or evaluation programs.
- Preferred knowledge of AI safety, ethical AI, data protection regulations, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, policy-as-code, automated security gates, and AI-assisted review and remediation.
- Track record of mentoring senior engineers and fostering security-first cultures.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Starting salary range of $202,100.00 to $271,700.00 for U.S. and/or Canada locations, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants and annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, family emergency leave, and optional volunteer days.
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.