Cisco's Foundation AI team is looking to secure AI transformation by leading research and development of security and AI, building AI Security at Cisco scale, and leading the next generation of AI infrastructure for disruptive security products.
Requirements
- Work or academic experience in AI, machine learning, and deep learning technologies
- Work or academic experience in generic programming languages such as Python or Golang.
- Experience in ML concepts like bias and variance, supervised & unsupervised learning, Generative AI
- Fluency in reading academic papers on AI/ML and security and translating to prototype systems.
- Experience developing software for a security/identity/privacy product
- Experience deploying workloads in a cloud environment: GCP, Azure, AWS
- Experience with Kubernetes
Responsibilities
- Track and analyze emerging AI systems, focusing on applications and environments related to security and safety
- Develop a platform for AI intelligence gathering, data collection, model fine tuning, evaluation and other AI related needs
- Work on purpose-built security foundational models
- Author blog posts, white papers, or research papers related to emerging threats in AI security
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of researchers and engineers to translate research ideas into product features.
- Create novel threat intelligence from open source and open weight AI supply chain sources.
- Create and use groundbreaking models and algorithms around AI for security.
Other
- A PhD in computer science or related fields with 4 years of related experience or Master’s with 5 years of related industry experience or Bachelor’s with 6 years of related industry experience.
- Hybrid role working from the San Francisco office at least 3 days a week.
- Comfortable with fast iterative style development in an environment that requires autonomous thinking, risk taking and bias for action
- Ability to use the latest GenAI technologies and creative prompting
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong analytical and problem-solving skill
