Principal Machine Learning Developer
Role Overview
The Cisco CTO Organization is developing AI-native, cloud-delivered, autonomous operations platforms for networking and security.
The role works across networking, security operations, machine learning, large-scale telemetry, and agentic systems.
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Role overview
The Cisco CTO Organization is developing AI-native, cloud-delivered, autonomous operations platforms for networking and security.
The role works across networking, security operations, machine learning, large-scale telemetry, and agentic systems.
Responsibilities
- Define AI-native platform architectures for observability, assurance, incident intelligence, threat analysis, optimization, and automation.
- Integrate LLMs and agentic workflows with operational network and security data.
- Build capabilities for anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, prediction, triage, threat investigation, and guided remediation.
- Develop operational world models and closed-loop automation for safe remediation.
- Build large-scale telemetry and event pipelines; apply RAG and grounding methods for reliable operator assistants.
- Develop cloud-native capabilities and drive architecture, experimentation, production deployment, reliability, and scale.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing products; lead and mentor engineers and researchers.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of related experience, master’s degree with 7+ years, or PhD with 5+ years.
- 12+ years in AI/ML, platform engineering, distributed systems, agentic applications in networking, security operations, or related fields.
- Experience with large-scale operational data such as metrics, logs, events, alerts, traces, topology, configurations, and unstructured data.
- Programming experience in one or more of C++, Go, Java, or Python.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience applying agentic AI to network operations, security operations, or autonomous infrastructure.
- Knowledge of networking and SecOps platforms, security analytics, SIEM/SOAR, identity signals, vulnerability intelligence, or cloud security operations.
- Experience with multimodal learning, world models, graph ML, causal inference, RAG, or time-series modeling.
- Product mindset and experience taking cross-functional research and concepts through production.
- Published research, patents, or technical leadership in AI, networking, security, or distributed systems.
- Experience with real-time inference, anomaly detection, threat analysis, cloud-native distributed systems, Kubernetes, microservices, or multi-cloud platforms.
Compensation
- The posted starting salary range for the U.S. and/or Canada is CAD 228,700–289,000, excluding incentive compensation, equity, and benefits.
- Pay depends on hiring location, market conditions, job-related skills, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, and training.
Application timing
The application window is expected to close on November 15, 2026.
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