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# Security Engineer

- **Company:** Cisco Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $167,700.0 - $245,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), C++ (Programming Language), Code Review, Continuous Integration, Firmware, Networking Hardware, Python (Programming Language), Open Web Application Security, EndPointSecurity, Information Technology
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18759614/Security-Engineer-California-San-Francisco

## About the Role

* A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field with 7 years of related experience; a master's with 4 years; or a PhD with 1 year, preferably complemented by CSSLP certification.
 * Experience delivering threat models, security reviews, and reusable controls or patterns, with test cases and reproducible evidence that verify implemented behavior.
 * Experience assessing and improving the security of embedded or IoT network devices across hardware, firmware, and the device lifecycle, including C/C++ code review, device security testing, and security tooling in Python or a comparable language.
 * Experience using CWE hardware and software weakness hierarchies to identify root causes and recurring patterns, and applying MITRE EMB3D, OWASP IoT guidance, or comparable device-security frameworks to threat modeling and remediation.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Experience collaborating with engineers across functions, cultures, and geographies in large matrix organizations through clear communication of security findings and technical tradeoffs, mentoring, and coordinated delivery.
 * Experience applying systems thinking and risk exposure to prioritize security work, align claims with evidence, and guide escalations that support high-quality delivery and customer outcomes.
 * Experience building agentic workflows that integrate models, tools, and engineering data, with evaluations, human review, protected inputs, and improvements as model capabilities change.
 * Experience developing static-analysis rules, secure APIs or wrappers, or CI/CD guardrails, and evaluating their precision, coverage, and adoption across multiple repositories or product families.