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Senior Software Engineer - AI​/Security Platform

Job in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, 95199, USA
Listing for: Cisco
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-18
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    AI Engineer (Applied/Software)
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 214100 - 309800 USD Yearly USD 214100.00 309800.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

The application window is expected to close on: 09/24/2026

Meet the Team

We are an agile team with a startup feel and a strong bias for action. We move fast, embrace failure as part of the process, and stay focused on solving real-world problems for defenders on the front lines. Our team blends deep expertise in AI, cybersecurity, platform and systems engineering. We are driven by a shared belief that the only way to outpace hackers is through AI advancements that free up humans to tackle real threats and more challenging problems.

This is a place for builders who thrive in ambiguity, challenge the status quo, and care deeply about making a meaningful impact. If you’re energized by tough problems, excited to shape the future of cyber defense, and eager to work alongside passionate experts, you’ll feel right at home.

Your Impact
  • Design and build systems that combine security-relevant data, detection signals, context, and foundation models to spot and predict threats, those in action and those that are about to happen.
  • Prototype and test new AI features - from decoding events and system environments to predicting anomalies and threats - working closely with security SMEs and security researchers to validate real-world utility.
  • Develop an AIDevOps pipeline to enable rapid experimentation with data. Knowledge bases, models, and context memory, using clear, measurable success criteria to evaluate iterations.
  • Architect and build the distributed platform that can correlate trillions of events & signals, and can synthesize them into explainable findings and alerts, consumed by our triage resolution agents – you will be building a key capability of the Agentic SOC.
  • Collaborate with product and platform teamsto co-design AI-enhanced threat detection and prediction workflows that are intuitive, scalable, and immediately useful to analysts.
  • Contribute to the core architecture powering AI-native security operations, helping to shape how Splunk and Cisco scale trusted automation across the enterprise.
Minimum Qualifications
  • 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—and understanding how they’re used in detection and investigation workflows.
  • 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– Familiarity with TDIR/SIEM architectures, correlation searches, threat hunting support systems. Bonus if you’ve worked with Splunk’s APIs, internals, or have experience developing on the Splunk platform.
  • Security Operations Background– Former Tier 3 SOC analyst or equivalent, with experience automating Sec Ops workflows and building scalable, resilient detection infrastructure.
  • RAG and GraphRAG Search Implementation– Hands-on experience developing retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and working with databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone).
  • Model Integration– Skilled in crafting, testing, and optimizing training workloads for large language or special-purpose models such as GNNs, GCNs, GATs. Ideally, you have contributed to or shipped an AI-powered feature or product, and understand the nuances of integrating models into real-world workflows - including usability, performance, and trust considerations.
  • AI Evaluation & Experimentation– Capable of designing experiments to evaluate model output…
Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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