# Principal Engineer Software Security Hybrid

The application window is expected to close on: 01/30/2027This is a hybrid role Meet the Team AI Security is the focal point within Software Security for ensuring Cisco's security standards keep pace as AI becomes embedded in everything the company builds. We are the security authority for AI embedded in Cisco's products: we define what secure AI looks like, validate it with evidence, and help teams get there faster - across AI-assisted development, AI embedded in our products and platforms, and AI used in Cisco's internal business operations. We're building the framework that doesn't yet exist, and scaling it across the portfolio. Your Impact As a Principal Engineer on the AI Security team, you will be a senior technical authority shaping the security standard for every AI capability Cisco ships - to customers, partners, and internal users alike. Your impact will include: Define the AI Security Standard: Author and evolve threat models, architecture patterns, and security requirements for AI-native features - RAG hardening, tool-call governance, agent identity, bounded autonomy, approval flows, audit-ability, and human accountability. Secure AI-Assisted Development: Set the standa

- **Id**: 3997873
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cisco-systems-principal-engineer-software-security-hybrid>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States, Austin, United States, Chicago, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T05:52:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8909
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual bonuses, Equity, Life insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Application 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**: 84
- **Open postings**: 266
- **Ghost share**: 0.049
- **Stale share**: 0.462
- **Repost share**: 0.086
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 26
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 233900
- **Max**: 380000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 380000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Evaluation** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: yes
- **NIST AI RMF** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T02:03:37Z

## 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**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 26
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:21:34Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 380000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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