Principal Engineer | AI and Security | 13+ years

Job Summary

Careers Principal Engineer | AI and Security | 13+ years remote type Hybrid Principal Engineer – AI & Security Platforms Location: Bangalore, India Organization: Infrastructure & Security CTO Meet the Team The Infrastructure & Security CTO organization is shaping the future of Cisco’s core products by driving AI-driven, cloud-native, security-first architectures across networking and security platforms. Your Impact As a Principal Engineer, you will define how AI and security are embedded into Cisco’s core networking and security products. You will work at the intersection of LLMs, Zero Trust security, and cloud-native systems, delivering innovations that improve threat detection, enable secure access, and automate operations at scale. What You’ll Do • Integrate AI/ML and LLMs into platforms for threat detection, anomaly analysis, and intelligent policy enforcement • Design security-first architectures, including firewall, Zero Trust / secure access, and runtime security (e.g., Tetragon / eBPF) • Build cloud-native platform capabilities leveraging Kubernetes and multi-cloud environments • Develop large-scale telemetry, data pipelines, and real-time inference systems to power AI-driven insights • Design solutions across the AI security lifecycle, including model/data protection, access control, and runtime enforcement • Drive end-to-end execution from architecture through production, including hands-on design and critical-path development • Partner with...