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Base Salary
$214k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-team Agentic SOC capabilities from concept through measurable production improvement.
- Build reusable agent runtime, orchestration, governed tool-use, context, memory, evaluation, tracing, and quality-gate capabilities.
- Translate SOC, SIEM, detection, incident, investigation, and response needs into shared technical mechanisms.
- Design systems supporting grounded reasoning, planning, delegation, human oversight, traceability, auditability, and safe failure handling.
- Define AI success metrics and establish closed-loop evaluation using datasets, production traces, experiments, feedback, and regression gates.
- Architect deployments across public cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments.
- Establish identity propagation, authorization, tenant isolation, policy enforcement, privacy, auditability, and permission-aware actions.
- Diagnose failures across models, prompts, tools, data, orchestration, services, infrastructure, and product integrations.
- Remain hands-on in implementation and design reviews while mentoring and influencing senior engineers.
- Use AI tools throughout the software development lifecycle with appropriate human validation and security, privacy, and intellectual-property controls.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience developing, testing, and/or operating production software.
- Experience building and/or operating large-scale distributed or AI-enabled production systems.
- Programming experience with Python or Go.
- Bachelor’s degree plus 10 years of related experience, or master’s degree plus 6 years, or PhD plus 3 years.
- Experience with LLM and agentic-system concepts such as grounding, planning, tool use, memory, human oversight, evaluation, tracing, and regression analysis.
- Experience defining AI metrics, building evaluation and experimentation loops, and connecting offline results to production behavior and customer outcomes.
- Experience delivering software across public cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, or air-gapped environments.
- Familiarity with SOC, SIEM, detections, incidents, investigations, response, identity, policy, privacy, and auditability.
- Experience leading cross-team technical initiatives, adopting shared technologies, mentoring senior engineers, and using AI responsibly in software development.
Benefits
- Hybrid role with an on-site requirement in the San Jose or San Francisco offices.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with Cisco matching, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
- Potential eligibility for Cisco restricted stock unit grants.
- Paid holidays, floating holiday, birthday leave, year-end shutdown, wellness days, vacation or flexible time off, and sick time.
- Optional paid volunteer days and additional paid time away for critical family or emergency issues.
- Eligibility for annual bonuses for non-sales roles.
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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.