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

AI Cybersecurity Engineer

Cisco senior full-time

Salary

$186,900 to $267,700 per year

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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

Nice to have

  • Security Data Engineering
  • Security Operations Experience
  • RAG and GraphRAG Search Implementation
  • Model Integration
  • AI Evaluation & Experimentation
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