# AI-Native Cybersecurity Engineer

**Company**: Cisco
**Location**: San Jose, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $155,000.00 - $222,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking an AI-Native Cybersecurity Engineer to join our team in San Jose or San Francisco, CA. This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days in the office per week.

As an AI-Native Cybersecurity Engineer, you will work on building AI-native capabilities for cybersecurity operations. You will design, implement, test, and operate a defined service, data pipeline, or platform component supporting AI-enabled security detection and investigation.

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, test, and operate a defined service, data pipeline, or platform component supporting AI-enabled security detection and investigation.

- Build reliable backend services, APIs, and automation workflows, primarily using Python and other modern engineering technologies.

- Process and normalize security telemetry such as endpoint events, network activity, authentication records, or cloud audit data.

- Contribute to correlation, enrichment, retrieval, and context-generation capabilities that produce useful and explainable security findings.

- Prototype focused AI features using existing models, retrieval systems, embeddings, or agent frameworks.

- Create measurable tests and evaluations for accuracy, reliability, latency, cost, and operational usefulness.

- Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, documentation, and production-readiness activities.

- Troubleshoot issues across software, data, and service integrations and help improve system observability and reliability.

- Partner with product managers, security SMEs, researchers, and engineers to clarify requirements and deliver incremental improvements.

- Participate in production support or on-call responsibilities, where applicable to the team’s operating model.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field with 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.

- Experience developing backend services, APIs, data-processing systems, or distributed software.

- Experience with Python and Python-based systems.

- Experience with software development fundamentals, including design, testing, debugging, code review, version control, and CI/CD practices.

- Experience working with structured or semi-structured event data, logs, metrics, or telemetry.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience building data ingestion, parsing, normalization, enrichment, or correlation pipelines.

- Familiarity with distributed storage, data lakes, warehouses, streaming systems, or event-driven architectures.

- Experience with security operations, SIEM, TDIR, threat detection, threat hunting, triage, or incident response workflows.

- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, embeddings, knowledge graphs, or model integrations.

- Experience designing evaluations for AI/ML systems, including quality, safety, latency, cost, and user trust.

- Experience with cloud platforms, containers, Kubernetes, observability, or production service operations.

- Familiarity with AI-assisted software development or agentic engineering tools.

- Experience developing secure, privacy-conscious, and resilient enterprise software.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering and non-engineering disciplines.

- Ability to learn security operations concepts and apply feedback from security experts to software designs.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401(k) plan with Cisco matching contribution

- Paid parental leave

- Short and long-term disability coverage

- Basic life insurance

- Paid time away (vacation, holidays, sick time)

- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer

Salary Range: $155,000.00 - $222,600.00

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- backend services
- APIs
- data-processing systems
- distributed software
- software development fundamentals

### Nice to have
- data ingestion
- distributed storage
- security operations
- SIEM
- TDIR
- threat detection
- retrieval-augmented generation
- vector search
- embeddings
- knowledge graphs
- model integrations

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