8 days ago
Base Salary
$187k - $268k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build systems combining security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to detect and predict threats.
- Prototype and test AI features for event decoding, environment understanding, anomaly detection, and threat prediction with security subject-matter experts and researchers.
- Develop AI DevOps pipelines for rapid experimentation with data, knowledge bases, models, and context memory.
- Architect and build distributed platforms that correlate trillions of events and signals into explainable findings and alerts.
- Design AI-enhanced threat detection and prediction workflows with product and platform teams.
- Contribute to the architecture for 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 with storage systems and storage access layers.
- Experience implementing data platforms, data lakes, and data warehouses.
- Experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows in Python.
- Experience designing agent systems that perform coding tasks.
- Experience with telemetry sources such as endpoint logs, network traffic, authentication events, or cloud audit trails and their use in detection and investigation workflows.
- Preferred experience building security telemetry ingestion, parsing, normalization, and data pipelines.
- Preferred understanding of security operations, attack surface management, threat analytics, detection, triage, investigation, and response, or equivalent Tier 3 SOC experience.
- Preferred hands-on experience developing RAG and GraphRAG pipelines with databases such as FAISS and Pinecone.
- Preferred experience crafting, testing, and optimizing workloads for large language or special-purpose models such as GNNs, GCNs, and GATs.
- Preferred experience integrating AI-powered features into real-world workflows and evaluating model accuracy, usability, performance, and cost.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contributions.
- Paid parental leave, short- and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, birthday leave, year-end holiday shutdown, personal wellness days, vacation or flexible vacation time, and sick time.
- Additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues and optional paid volunteer days.
- Annual bonuses may be available for non-sales roles.
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.