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From the employer's careers site First seen 25 Oct 2026 · Still live on 31 Oct 2026

AI Engineer - Threat Detection and Prediction

Cisco senior full-time

Salary

$214,100 - $309,800 per year

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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

Nice to have

  • TDIR/SIEM architectures
  • correlation searches
  • threat hunting
  • RAG and GraphRAG Search Implementation
  • model integration
  • AI evaluation
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