AI Security Platform Engineer

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 187,000 - 268,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks an experienced engineer to design and build AI-enabled security platforms. You will integrate security telemetry, context, and foundation models to detect threats and explain findings for analysts.

You will prototype AI features, develop an AI DevOps pipeline, and help architect a scalable distributed platform that ties trillions of events to actionable alerts across Cisco's security stack.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of related experience or Master's with 6+ years of related experience.
• Experience in distributed systems design and implementation with storage access layers.
• Proficient Python development for scalable backend services and automation workflows.
• DevOps practices and SecOps familiarity, including CI/CD, Git, Jira, and automated testing frameworks.
• Agentic development experience designing agent systems for coding tasks.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with product managers, security SMEs, and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that combine security data, signals, context, and foundation models to spot threats.
• Prototype and test AI features with security SMEs and researchers to validate real-world utility.
• Develop an AI DevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation with data and context memory.
• Architect and build a distributed platform that correlates trillions of events and produces explainable findings for analysts.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to co-design AI-enhanced threat detection workflows.
• Contribute to the core architecture powering AI-native security operations across Cisco.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Python development

DevOps/SecOps

Agentic development

Cross-functional collaboration

Security telemetry fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree with 8+ years

Master's degree with 6+ years

Tools

GitHub/GitLab

Jira

Splunk APIs/internals

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. seeks an experienced engineer to design and build AI-enabled security platforms. You will integrate security telemetry, context, and foundation models to detect threats and explain findings for analysts.

You will prototype AI features, develop an AI DevOps pipeline, and help architect a scalable distributed platform that ties trillions of events to actionable alerts across Cisco's security stack.