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About the role
• Design and implement security controls for Generative AI systems, including LLM-based applications, RAG pipelines, and agent-driven workflows. • Identify and mitigate AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, data exfiltration, insecure tool usage, and model abuse.
What they're looking for
- • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity related field or equivalent certifications along with work experience
- • 3+ years of experience in application security, cloud security, or platform security engineering
- • Hands-on experience securing distributed systems or cloud-native applications (Kubernetes, APIs, microservices)
- • Experience designing and implementing authentication, authorization, and data protection controls
- • Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Go, or similar) for building security tooling and automation
- • Cybersecurity background and operational experience
More about this role
The application window is expected to close on: 10/29/2026
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.
• Design and implement security controls for Generative AI systems, including LLM-based applications, RAG pipelines, and agent-driven workflows.
• Identify and mitigate AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, data exfiltration, insecure tool usage, and model abuse.
• Establish guardrails for prompt handling, input/output validation, and safe tool invocation to ensure secure...
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