Security Research Engineer

The application window is expected to close on: February 20, 2025.

Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

The Cisco Talos Network Threat Detection Response Team creates network and endpoint signatures that are distributed world-wide to multiple products in Cisco's security portfolio and the open-source community. We currently work with deep learning-based exploit detection to identify malicious activity in network traffic. Once released, these protections directly impact the security of people and organizations around the globe.

• Generate synthetic attack traffic used to train models
• Create and maintain machine learning models capable of detecting new attacks
• Test models for false positives, false negatives, and runtime latency
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure quality results
• Stay current with industry best practices and new techniques

• 3+ years of professional and/or educational experience using machine/deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow and/or PyTorch
• 3+ years of professional and/or education experience with complied languages, including C++ and Python
• 3+ years of experience in analyzing, identifying, and exploiting a diverse range of vulnerabilities, including but not limited to buffer overflows, integer overflows, SQL injections, cross-site and server-side request forgery attacks, insecure deserializations, and authentication bypasses

• 3+ years of professional and/or educational experience in Computer Science or a relevant discipline
• 3+ years of professional and/or education experience working on data science problems such as binary classification
• Familiarity and experience with hardware acceleration
• Familiar with basic network protocols, HTTP and DNS for example
• Expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) with a strong focus on deep learning models (e.g., BERT, GPT, transformer-based architectures) and proficiency in tokenization, text generation, embeddings, entity recognition, and text classification.

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