Meet the Team

Technical Leader, Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense (ETD) — G11 | Bangalore, India. Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense builds cloud security systems that help organizations detect, investigate, and respond to email threats. In this role, you will set technical direction for applied AI across the product, turning machine learning, generative AI, and agentic workflows into secure, reliable capabilities with measurable customer value. You will lead complex engineering work from exploration and evaluation through production, and raise AI and software engineering capability across the team.

Your Impact

You will combine deep AI expertise with strong software and security engineering judgment. You will guide the team in selecting the right problems for AI, validating solutions against rigorous quality and safety standards, and operating them effectively at cloud scale.

• Set the technical strategy and architecture for applied AI in ETD, connecting customer problems and product goals to a clear engineering roadmap.




• Design and lead AI capabilities for email threat investigation, triage, verdict quality, analyst assistance, and safe remediation using machine learning, large language models, and agent workflows where they fit.
• Own the AI lifecycle from data and use-case assessment through model or agent selection, prototyping, evaluation, production launch, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Build evaluation approaches that test accuracy, precision and recall, false-positive impact, robustness, latency, cost, and consistency across representative threat and customer scenarios.
• Establish safeguards for privacy, data protection, prompt and tool security, access control, auditability, human oversight, and responsible AI use.
• Architect scalable cloud services, APIs, data pipelines, and product integrations that make AI capabilities reliable and maintainable in production.
• Lead the protected adoption of approved AI coding assistants and agentic engineer

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