Staff Software Engineer, AI/Security Platform
Cisco
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This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$228,950 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $262k versus about $190k for comparable roles.
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Cisco Systems is the world''s leading networking technology company, designing and manufacturing networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and cybersecurity solutions for businesses and governments. Industry: Networking Technology & Cybersecurity
Cisco currently has 196 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $167,700–$245,200 across 196 roles with salary data.
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Senior Staff Software Engineer - AI/Security Platform joins an agile team focused on building advanced cyber defense systems to outpace hackers through AI innovation. This role involves designing and building distributed platforms that correlate trillions of events into explainable findings for triage resolution agents within an Agentic SOC. The engineer will prototype new AI features, develop AIDevOps pipelines for rapid experimentation with data, and collaborate with security experts to create intuitive detection workflows. Key technical requirements include senior-level Python development, experience with distributed systems, and proficiency in CI/CD pipelines and version control. Specific expertise is required in security telemetry, data engineering, RAG and GraphRAG implementations using tools like FAISS or Pinecone, and optimizing training workloads for large language models or GNNs to solve complex problems in automated threat detection and response.
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