GenAI Security Engineer: Secure AI Platforms

Cisco Systems, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Disability coverage

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking security-focused engineers for its Enterprise AI team to design and implement safeguards for AI systems. You will help secure LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and agent workflows while addressing prompt injections and data protection concerns.

Join a fast-growing team focused on secure Generative AI at enterprise scale, collaborating across engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to deliver trusted AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity-related field.
• 3+ years in application, cloud, or platform security engineering.
• Hands-on security for distributed systems and cloud-native apps (Kubernetes, APIs, microservices).
• Experience designing auth and data protection controls; programming with Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security controls for Generative AI systems, including LLM-based applications, RAG pipelines, and agent-driven workflows.
• Identify and mitigate AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, data exfiltration, insecure tool usage, and model abuse.
• Establish guardrails for prompt handling, input/output validation, and safe tool invocation to ensure secure agent behavior.
• Secure RAG pipelines by enforcing data access controls, source integrity, and retrieval boundary protections.
• Define and enforce model access controls, API protections, and runtime monitoring to prevent misuse and unauthorized access.
• Partner with AI platform and infrastructure teams to integrate security into model deployment pipelines and inference services.
• Conduct threat modeling and security assessments for AI systems, including model lifecycle, data pipelines, and inference endpoints.
• Build automated detection and response mechanisms for AI-specific risks, including anomalous queries and unsafe outputs.

Skills

Application security

Cloud security

Platform security

Kubernetes

APIs

Microservices

Authentication

Authorization

Data protection

Python

Go

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Cybersecurity

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking security-focused engineers for its Enterprise AI team to design and implement safeguards for AI systems. You will help secure LLM apps, RAG pipelines, and agent workflows while addressing prompt injections and data protection concerns.

Join a fast-growing team focused on secure Generative AI at enterprise scale, collaborating across engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to deliver trusted AI solutions.