# AI Engineer - Threat Detection and Prediction

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $214,100.00 - $309,800.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced AI Engineer to join our team, focusing on threat detection and prediction. You will design and build systems that combine security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to spot and predict threats. You will also prototype and test new AI features, develop an AIDevOps pipeline, and architect and build a distributed platform that can correlate trillions of events and signals.

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 security researchers to validate real-world utility

- Develop an AIDevOps pipeline to enable rapid experimentation with data

- Architect and build the distributed platform that can correlate trillions of events and signals

- Collaborate with product and platform teams to co-design AI-enhanced threat detection and prediction workflows

- Contribute to the core architecture powering AI-native security operations

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree with 12+ years of related experience or Master's with 8+ years of related experience

- Experience with data sources such as endpoint logs, network traffic, authentication events, or cloud audit trails

- Experience implementing data platforms and/or data lakes and warehouses

- Experience building and maintaining pipelines for ingesting, parsing, and normalizing large-scale security telemetry

- Experience building scalable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows in Python

- Experience designing agent systems that will perform coding tasks for you

Preferred Qualifications:

- Enterprise-grade Security Product Experience, specifically with TDIR/SIEM architectures, correlation searches, threat hunting support systems

- Security Operations Background, specifically as a former Tier 3 SOC analyst or equivalent

- RAG and GraphRAG Search Implementation experience

- Model Integration experience, specifically with crafting, testing, and optimizing training workloads for large language or special-purpose models

- AI Evaluation & Experimentation experience

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away, including 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $214,100.00 - $309,800.00

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- data platforms
- security telemetry
- backend services
- APIs
- automation workflows
- agent systems

### Nice to have
- TDIR/SIEM architectures
- correlation searches
- threat hunting
- RAG and GraphRAG Search Implementation
- model integration
- AI evaluation

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