Cisco

AI Platform Engineering Lead, Security Core AI - Agentic SOC Platform (hybrid)

Cisco$214K — $309K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's with 7+ years, or a PhD with 3+ years; all experience related to role.
  • 4+ years in technical leadership or management in a software engineering or SOC environment.
  • Experience in delivering and maintaining software in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) or air-gapped environments.
  • Proven track record in delivering large-scale distributed systems or data-intensive services.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop a large team of software engineers, ensuring career growth and accountability.
  • Translate AI strategy into clear roadmaps, staffing plans, and execution priorities.
  • Oversee delivery of AI capabilities from requirements to production across multiple environments.
  • Collaborate with security teams to meet SOC, SIEM, and incident response needs through scalable engineering.
  • Engage with product and architecture partners to ensure end-to-end capability delivery.
  • Foster relationships with Cisco and Splunk teams, driving adoption of shared technologies.
  • Set and measure goals for delivery, AI quality, customer impact, and reliability.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with required onsite presence in San Jose.
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
  • Supportive engineering culture focused on inclusivity and continuous improvement.
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 08/27/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

This is a hybrid role, requiring some on-site work weekly in our San Jose office

Your Impact

As the Software Engineering Manager of the Security Core AI team, you'll lead a sizable engineering team creating trusted AI capabilities that help security organizations detect, investigate, and respond to threats. You will combine software engineering judgment, people leadership, and cross-functional execution to deliver capabilities across cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments in partnership with teams across Cisco and Splunk.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a sizable team of software engineers, establishing clear expectations, accountability, and career growth.
  • Translate Security Core AI strategy into practical roadmaps, staffing plans, priorities, and release-aligned execution.
  • Lead delivery of shared AI capabilities for the Agentic SOC from requirements and architecture through integration, adoption, and improvement.
  • Partner with security-domain teams to translate SOC, SIEM, detection, incident, investigation, and response needs into scalable engineering outcomes.
  • Coordinate with product, architecture, deployment, quality, release, operations, support, and engineering partners to land capabilities end to end.
  • Build strong relationships with Cisco and Splunk AI platform teams; evaluate shared technologies, drive adoption, and represent Security requirements.
  • Balance near-term product commitments with convergence toward common platform, orchestration, and evaluation approaches.
  • Guide delivery across cloud, on-premises, sovereign cloud, and air-gapped environments addressing residency, connectivity, deployment, upgrade, and resource constraints.
  • Establish goals and metrics for delivery, AI quality, reliability, security, adoption, cost, and customer impact.
  • Promote responsible use of AI tools throughout requirements, design, coding, review, testing, documentation, debugging, release, and production improvement.
  • Hire, onboard, retain, and manage performance while building an inclusive, accountable, and continuously improving engineering culture.
  • Coach technical leaders and senior engineers, delegate meaningful ownership, and build succession and growth paths.
  • Resolve dependencies and priority conflicts, communicate trade-offs, and maintain stakeholder alignment as requirements and schedules change.
  • Represent the team in planning, architecture, customer, and executive discussions.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelors + 10 years experience, or Masters + 7 years experience, or PhD + 3 years experience; all experience to be related to role.
  • 4+ years of technical leadership or management experience in a software engineering or SOC environment
  • Experience delivering and maintaining software in public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and/or on-premises or air-gapped environment.
  • Experience delivering large-scale distributed systems, AI platforms, or data-intensive services


Preferred Qualifications
  • Knowledge of AI and agentic-systems with the ability to guide technical decisions, quality expectations, risk management, and delivery.
  • Experience with SIEM, SOAR, threat detection, and/or incident response technologies and/or workflows
  • Experience executing through complex partner relationships and adopting shared technologies across large organizations; Cisco or Splunk or experience with similar SIEM technologies is valued.
  • Proven success scaling engineering practices, using AI-assisted development responsibly, mentoring technical leaders, and building high-performing teams.

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