Senior AI Software Engineer - Scalable Cyber Defense

Cisco Systems, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Stock grants/RSUs

Job summary

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking engineers to design and build AI-driven security platforms that correlate trillions of events and signals, delivering explainable findings for analysts. You will prototype AI features with SMEs, develop an AI DevOps pipeline, and collaborate across product and platform teams to scale trusted automation.

The role emphasizes architecture, data engineering, and rapid iteration in a security-focused environment, with opportunity to impact enterprise defenses globally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of related experience or Master's with 4+ years of related experience.
• Distributed systems design and implementation with storage systems focus.
• Fluent Python or Go development for backend services and automation.
• DevOps and SecOps practices including CI/CD, version control, and testing.
• Agentic development of coding-task agents and collaborations with product/engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that fuse security data, signals, context, and models to detect threats.
• Prototype and test AI features with security SMEs and researchers to validate value.
• Develop an AI DevOps pipeline for rapid experimentation with data and memory.
• Architect and build a distributed platform to correlate events and produce explainable findings.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to design AI-enhanced threat workflows.
• Contribute to core architecture for AI-native security operations at scale.

Skills

Distributed systems design

Data platform/fabric

Python/Go development

DevOps/SecOps

Agentic development

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree + 7+ years

Master's degree + 4+ years

Tools

GitHub/GitLab

Jira

Job description

Cisco Systems, Inc. is seeking engineers to design and build AI-driven security platforms that correlate trillions of events and signals, delivering explainable findings for analysts. You will prototype AI features with SMEs, develop an AI DevOps pipeline, and collaborate across product and platform teams to scale trusted automation.

The role emphasizes architecture, data engineering, and rapid iteration in a security-focused environment, with opportunity to impact enterprise defenses globally.