# AI Safety & Reasoning Engineer (Reasoning Transparency)

The application window is expected to close on: 12/30/2026Meet the Team 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. In this role, you will connect AI safety research with production engineering. You will develop methods and infrastructure to assess whether model behavior reflects its internal state, and help ensure deployed AI systems remain reliable, honest, and aligned as they use increasingly complex inference-time computation. Your Impact You will operationalize transparency by

- **Id**: 4320467
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-ai-safety-reasoning-engineer-reasoning-transparency>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Research Triangle Park, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T19:53:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8129
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Network Security, Unified Communications, Endpoint Security, Observability & APM

## Company

- **Id**: 90
- **Name**: Cisco Systems
- **Domain**: cisco.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cisco-systems>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 284
- **Ghost share**: 0.063
- **Stale share**: 0.447
- **Repost share**: 0.106
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 167700
- **Max**: 282000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 282000

## Technologies

- **Interpretability** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RLAIF** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T19:53:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1,384 · green card filings: 608; Filings 12m: 1384

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T21:01:03Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 282000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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