Cisco is seeking a Director of AI Threat Intelligence (AI Red Team) to lead our AI Defense initiatives. This role will be crucial in advancing our efforts to safeguard AI technologies and ensure their ethical and secure implementation.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience in cybersecurity threat intelligence, adversarial AI research or related field.
- Proven leadership experience building and managing threat intelligence and research teams in high-growth, dynamic environments.
- PhD and 8+ years of Engineering experience.
- Extraordinarily resourceful & thorough, you can operate successfully among forward-thinking people and equally comfortable leading design sessions with technologists as with business executives.
Responsibilities
- Lead the develop a high-performing AI threat intelligence and research - Red Team, fostering innovation, technical excellence and collaboration.
- Identify and analyze emerging threats related to AI, adversarial machine learning and generative AI models.
- Provide strategic guidance on AI security threats to executive leadership, influencing company-wide security and product strategy.
- Drive continuous improvement of AI detection capabilities, model validation processes and threat intelligence methodologies.
- Serve as subject matter expert on adversarial AI techniques, threat modeling, red teaming and cybersecurity trends, representing the organization in industry forums and conferences.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including strategy, marketing, product management, engineering, and sales, to align threat intelligence initiatives with business objectives.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree and equivalent 15+ years of engineering exp OR Master’s degree and 12+ years of Engineering exp.
- Strong leadership skills and experience building and leading hard-working teams.
