Senior AI Security Engineer

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

Job summary

Cisco is seeking an experienced engineer to design and build AI-powered security systems that correlate vast data signals to detect and predict threats. You will prototype AI features and develop an AI DevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation.

You will architect a distributed platform capable of handling trillions of events, collaborating with product and platform teams to deliver scalable, trustworthy automation for cybersecurity operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of related experience or Master's with 4+ years of related experience.
• Experience with storage systems and storage access layers.
• Experience working with data platforms and/or data lakes and warehouses or streaming platforms.
• Experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows in Python or Go.
• Experience designing agent systems that will perform coding tasks for you.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that combine security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to spot and predict threats.
• Prototype and test new AI features working closely with security SMEs and researchers to validate real-world utility.
• Develop an AIDevOps pipeline to enable rapid experimentation with data, knowledge bases, models, and context memory.
• Architect and build the distributed platform that can correlate trillions of events & signals and synthesize them into explainable findings and alerts for triage agents.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to co-design AI-enhanced threat detection and prediction workflows that are intuitive and scalable.
• Contribute to the core architecture powering AI-native security operations and how Cisco scale trusted automation across the enterprise.

Skills

Backend services (Python/Go)

Storage systems & access

Data platforms / data lakes

Security systems design

Agent systems design

Education

Bachelor's degree + 7+ years

Master's degree + 4+ years

Tools

FAISS

Pinecone

Weaviate

Job description

Cisco is seeking an experienced engineer to design and build AI-powered security systems that correlate vast data signals to detect and predict threats. You will prototype AI features and develop an AI DevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation.

You will architect a distributed platform capable of handling trillions of events, collaborating with product and platform teams to deliver scalable, trustworthy automation for cybersecurity operations.