AI Platform Security Engineer Hybrid

Cisco•San Jose, NC

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Cisco’s Enterprise AI team, the core group enabling Generative AI powered experiences across Cisco. Our mission is to build secure, scalable AI platforms that empower teams to safely develop, deploy, and operationalize AI-powered solutions. We operate at the intersection of applied AI, cloud infrastructure and security —partnering across engineering, security, compliance, and product teams to bring trusted AI to life at enterprise scale. We are a fast-growing, highly collaborative team of platform engineers, AI engineers, and data scientists who value technical depth, ownership, and pragmatic execution. What makes this team exciting is the opportunity to define how secure Generative AI is built and governed inside a global technology leader. Your Impact Design and implement secure cloud architectures that enable enterprise-scale Generative AI platforms and services. Establish security guardrails, IAM strategies, and network controls to ensure AI workloads are deployed safely and compliantly. Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows to proactively reduce cloud misconfiguration risk. Lead threat modeling and risk assessments for AI systems to protect sensitive data, models, and inference endpoints. Partner with AI engineers, platform teams, and GRC stakeholders to operationalize security standards that enable innovation while reducing risk. Success in this role means delivering scalable cloud security patterns that accelerate AI adoption while strengthening Cisco’s enterprise security posture.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field with 6+ years of experience in cybersecurity or cloud security engineering.
3+ years of hands-on experience securing GCP, Azure, or AWS environments in production enterprise environments.
Experience designing and managing IAM, encryption, and network security controls.
Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes environments, including container image hardening, vulnerability scanning, image signing, and runtime policy enforcement.
Experience securing AI/ML workloads and Generative AI systems, including model, data, and inference endpoint protection

Responsibilities

Design and implement secure cloud architectures that enable enterprise-scale Generative AI platforms and services.
Establish security guardrails, IAM strategies, and network controls to ensure AI workloads are deployed safely and compliantly.
Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows to proactively reduce cloud misconfiguration risk.
Lead threat modeling and risk assessments for AI systems to protect sensitive data, models, and inference endpoints.
Partner with AI engineers, platform teams, and GRC stakeholders to operationalize security standards that enable innovation while reducing risk.

Benefits

U.S. employees are offered benefits, subject to Cisco’s plan eligibility rules, which include medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability coverage, and basic life insurance.
Employees may be eligible to receive grants of Cisco restricted stock units, which vest following continued employment with Cisco for defined periods of time.
U.S. employees are eligible for paid time away as described below, subject to Cisco’s policies: 10 paid holidays per full calendar year, plus 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
1 paid day off for employee’s birthday, paid year-end holiday shutdown, and 4 paid days off for personal wellness determined by Cisco
Non-exempt employees receive 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year, accrued at rate of 4.92 hours per pay period for full-time employees
Exempt employees participate in Cisco’s flexible vacation time off program, which has no defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use (subject to availability and some business limitations)
80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter, and up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
For non-sales roles, employees are also eligible to earn annual bonuses subject to Cisco’s policies.