Senior AI Security Engineer

Cisco Systems; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is hiring for a security-focused AI/ML engineering role in the San Jose area. You will design systems that fuse security data, signals, and foundation models to detect threats and predict incidents.

You will prototype AI features, build an AI DevOps pipeline, and architect a scalable distributed platform for explainable findings. Collaboration with product and platform teams will shape AI-enhanced threat workflows, while contributing to the core architecture powering Cisco's AI-native

Qualifications

• Strong background in security data engineering and operations.
• Experience with large-scale telemetry ingestion and normalization.
• Experience building scalable backend services and data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design systems that fuse security data, signals, and foundation models to detect threats.
• Prototype AI features and validate real-world utility with SMEs.
• Develop an AI DevOps pipeline for rapid data experimentation.
• Architect a distributed platform linking trillions of events to explainable findings.
• Collaborate with product/platform teams to craft AI-powered workflows.
• Contribute to AI-native security operations architecture for Cisco scale.

Skills

Security Data Eng

Security Ops

GraphRAG Search

Model Integration

AI Evaluation

Python/Go

Storage Systems

Data Lakes

Backend APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

FAISS

Pinecone

Weaviate

Job description

Cisco is hiring for a security-focused AI/ML engineering role in the San Jose area. You will design systems that fuse security data, signals, and foundation models to detect threats and predict incidents.

You will prototype AI features, build an AI DevOps pipeline, and architect a scalable distributed platform for explainable findings. Collaboration with product and platform teams will shape AI-enhanced threat workflows, while contributing to the core architecture powering Cisco's AI-native