1 day ago
Base Salary
$95k - $157k/yr
Responsibilities
- Execute routine, well-defined security engineering assignments using established practices and procedures.
- Support vulnerability and risk assessments, security code reviews, validation testing, remediation, and security-hardening activities.
- Assist with threat modeling AI-native features, including RAG, tool use, agentic workflows, and MCP integrations.
- Run defined adversarial tests and evaluations, record evidence and results, and escalate unexpected findings.
- Contribute Python tooling, evaluation cases, guardrails, and automated security checks under review.
- Support data-protection and human-oversight controls for AI systems.
- Contribute to threat research and technical write-ups, communicate findings, participate in security design reviews, and support incident-response activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree completed within the past three years or expected within the next 12 months.
- Education and work experience in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Foundational knowledge of security engineering, software development, AI/ML, or applied research gained through education, internships, projects, or equivalent practical work.
- Working knowledge of Python and the ability to develop and test basic scripts.
- Preferred experience includes software, product, or AI/ML security projects or portfolios; secure software development; vulnerability management; threat modeling; adversarial testing; AI security evaluations; LLM security risks; OWASP LLM/Agentic Top 10; MITRE ATLAS; NIST AI RMF; Cisco AI Defense; NVIDIA’s Garak; CI/CD, MCP, or AI development workflows.
Benefits
- U.S. employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, basic life insurance, paid holidays, vacation or flexible time off, sick time, wellness days, volunteer time, and other paid leave.
- Eligible employees may receive Cisco restricted stock units and annual bonuses subject to company policies.
- The posting advertises potential future full-time opportunities in the United States; the exact role may not currently be open.
- Compensation varies by hiring location, with posted U.S. salary ranges for New York City Metro Area and non-metro New York and Washington state locations.
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.