About the position
The successful applicant will provide ownership of and be performing work in FedRAMP or IL-5 type environments, and therefore, must be a U.S. Person (i.e. U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent resident, asylee, or refugee). This position may also perform work that the U.S. government has specified can only be performed by a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. There has never been a better time to be a member of the Security & Trust Organization (S&TO) at Cisco. The company, customers and shareholders are increasingly aware of the role security, trust, data protection and privacy play in achieving impactful business objectives. Security is not only imperative to mitigating cyber risk, but also a key pillar of Cisco's differentiation in the market. You will be part of a team that will help secure Cisco and our customers using advanced emerging technologies such as AI. Your role will help transform our data analysis, security capabilities, and improve decision-making through intelligent systems. Your work not only drives technological advancement but also contributes significantly to our success in protecting Cisco, our products, and offers.
Responsibilities
- Integrate and deploy AI models to accelerate application development.
- Develop Agentic applications to automate or accelerate key tasks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and deliver AI driven solutions.
- Use AI to analyze large sets of structured and unstructured data to derive meaningful insights.
- Evaluate and select appropriate AI models, libraries, and third-party tools.
- Document and communicate the technical aspects of AI projects to partners.
- Conduct research to advance the capabilities of Cisco S&TO's high-impact initiatives.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends and advancements in AI and provide recommendations to the rest of the organization.
- Work closely with multi-functional teams, including cybersecurity experts, data scientists, and software engineers, to align AI initiatives with organizational goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science and experience in software engineering using Python, Go, Bash or similar languages.
- Understanding of Vector Databases such as pgvector, Milvus, Pinecone, Weaveate, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, etc.
- Experience with orchestration libraries such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, and/or LangGraph.
- Experience with source control and continuous integration tools like Git, Jenkins.
- Demonstrate a dedicated attitude and ability to work multi-functionally with engineering and data science teams.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience using container technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
- Experience with cloud computing and working with cloud providers such as AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, or Azure AI Foundry.
- Experience with model training and deployment in production environments.
- Ability to work cross functionally with engineering and data science teams.
- Aptitude to stay up to date with advancing AI and machine learning technologies and industry best practices.
- Ability and the passion to learn new things quickly.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and observability platforms like Splunk, Grafana or Prometheus.
Benefits
- Quality medical, dental and vision insurance.
- 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution.
- Short and long-term disability coverage.
- Basic life insurance.
- Numerous wellbeing offerings.
- Up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year.
- Flexible Vacation Time Off policy.
- Sick Time Off policy with 80 hours provided on hire date.
- Paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues.
- Additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.
