Senior Detection Engineering Lead — AI/ML Security

Cisco; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco is seeking a security engineer to join Splunk’s Detection Engineering team. You will design scalable detection content and pipelines, partnering with Threat Hunting, SOC, and IR to address emergent threats. The role blends engineering rigor with security expertise and data science to transform telemetry into actionable alerts.

You will mentor peers, implement AI/ML techniques to reduce false positives, and help advance detection standards and patterns across the organization.

Qualifications

• Deployed and maintained Splunk Enterprise Security content in a production SOC environment.
• Built detection queries in SPL at scale with risk-based alerting and high-volume data sources.
• Integrated AI/ML techniques into detection pipelines to reduce false positives.
• Mapped threat intel to detection requirements with measurable success criteria.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable detection content and data-processing pipelines.
• Collaborate with Threat Hunting, SOC, IR, and product teams to close detection gaps.
• Mentor teammates on detection standards and design patterns.
• Contribute to automation to reduce manual toil and accelerate content development.

Skills

Splunk Enterprise Security

SPL queries

AI/ML techniques

Threat detection

Threat intelligence

Data processing pipelines

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 8 years

Master’s degree + 6+ years

PhD + 3 years

Tools

GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket

AWS/GCP/Azure

Python

Job description

Cisco is seeking a security engineer to join Splunk’s Detection Engineering team. You will design scalable detection content and pipelines, partnering with Threat Hunting, SOC, and IR to address emergent threats. The role blends engineering rigor with security expertise and data science to transform telemetry into actionable alerts.

You will mentor peers, implement AI/ML techniques to reduce false positives, and help advance detection standards and patterns across the organization.