Staff Software Engineer, AI/Security Platform
Cisco
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This role pays more than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $174,960–$231,150 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $227k versus about $203k 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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Staff Software Engineer - AI/Security Platform The Staff Software Engineer - AI/Security Platform joins an agile team focused on building advanced cyber defense capabilities. You will design and build systems that integrate security-relevant data, detection signals, and foundation models to predict and identify threats. Your daily responsibilities include prototyping new AI features for decoding events and predicting anomalies, developing AI DevOps pipelines for rapid experimentation with knowledge bases and context memory, and architecting a distributed platform capable of correlating trillions of events into explainable findings for triage resolution agents. You will utilize Python, Git, and CI/CD pipelines to build scalable backend services and automation workflows. Key technical requirements include experience in distributed systems, data platforms, agentic development, RAG, GraphRAG, and model integration using GNNs or GCNs. The role addresses the challenge of outpacing hackers by automating security operations through AI-native infrastructure.
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