# AI Cybersecurity Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $186,900.00 to $267,700.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an AI Cybersecurity Engineer to join our team. You will design and build systems that combine security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to spot and predict threats. You will prototype and test new AI features, develop an AI DevOps pipeline, architect and build a distributed platform, and collaborate with product and platform teams.

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 AI DevOps 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 8+ years of related experience or Master's with 6+ years of related experience

- Experience with storage systems and storage access layers

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

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

- Experience designing agent systems that will perform coding tasks

- Experience working with common telemetry data sources

Preferred Qualifications:

- Security Data Engineering – Experience building and maintaining pipelines for ingesting, parsing, and normalizing large-scale security telemetry

- Security Operations Experience – Understanding of security operations concepts

- RAG and GraphRAG Search Implementation – Hands-on experience developing retrieval-augmented generation pipelines

- Model Integration – Skilled in crafting, testing, and optimizing training workloads for large language or special-purpose models

- AI Evaluation & Experimentation – Capable of designing experiments to evaluate model output for accuracy, usability, performance, and cost

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

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Security Data Engineering
- Security Operations Experience
- RAG and GraphRAG Search Implementation
- Model Integration
- AI Evaluation & Experimentation

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