AI Researcher

Cisco is seeking a Technical Leader - AI Red Team to join our cutting-edge AI and Security organization.

Meet the Team

The Cisco AI Software & Platform Group incubates and delivers Generative AI based solutions to reinvent Cisco's existing Products and how customers interact with them. Our Group is also introducing new offerings that help customers roll out Generative AI at scale while doing so responsibly. Ultimately, we are doing so through internal platforms that unlock the benefits of this technology for Cisco teams and partners across our Security, Enterprise Networking, Collaboration and Splunk portfolios.

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Your Impact

This role is pivotal in advancing the safety, reliability, and security of AI systems at Cisco. As the lead of AI Red Team, you will identify, assess, and mitigate risks across our AI and machine learning (ML) products and services. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will simulate adversarial tactics, ensure system resiliency, and help shape the future of secure AI technologies.

• Lead an advanced red team focused on adversarial testing of AI/ML systems, identifying vulnerabilities across application, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Develop and execute sophisticated adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to emulate real-world threats targeting AI models and systems.
• Partner with product teams to analyze and mitigate risks in generative AI and language models, ensuring robust safeguards against adversarial manipulation.
• Prototype and deploy tools to automate vulnerability discovery and adversarial emulation, scaling impact across Cisco’s AI platforms.
• Collaborate with blue teams and security engineers to improve detection, investigation, and incident response capabilities for AI-specific threats.
• Drive technical investigations, analyzing AI safety risks and producing actionable insights to enhance system reliability and trustworthiness.
• Design and implement frameworks for secure data pipelines, ensuring quality, scalability, and compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.
• Engage with customers, diverse stakeholders, including engineering, product, and operations teams, to create actionable solutions for secure AI deployment.
• Stay at the forefront of AI safety research, adversarial machine learning, and threat intelligence, leveraging insights to guide Cisco’s AI strategy.
• Advocate for security best practices across the organization, providing clear communication on the impact of identified risks to both technical and non-technical audiences.