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What You'll Do:

As a Security Research Engineer on the Duo AI & Security Research team, you will help keep our products on the leading edge of identity security. You will work with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to develop effective threat detection systems. You will contribute threat insights to improve our existing Duo Trust Monitor and Risk Based Authentication products, while working to identify and respond to threat actor campaigns affecting Duo customers. Your security expertise combined with a product-oriented approach will help Duo deliver best-in-class security outcomes.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as an internal authority on identity threats such as phishing, adversary-in-the-middle, and session hijacking attacks to aid in product development.
• Actively hunt for identity threats in Duo customer telemetry and develop effective countermeasures.
• Support detection engineers in designing logic to detect and remediate sophisticated identity threats, including development of AI models.
• Establish, maintain, and monitor internal fixed intelligence repositories containing malicious IPs and device identifiers.
• Coordinate bidirectional intelligence sharing with our security research partners in Cisco Talos, including publication of threat advisories and public blogs.
• Keep abreast of current trends in the identity threat landscape.
• Organize and participate in red teaming and threat emulation exercises to better understand adversarial techniques and evaluate product efficacy.

Minimum Experience for this role:

• 6+ years professional experience in security research, threat intelligence analysis, cyber operations, or similar.
• 4+ years querying and analyzing data using query languages like SQL.
• 4+ years of scripting or software engineering experience with a common programming language, preferably Python.
• Experience contributing to automated defensive systems through detection engineering or security product development.

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Investigation and response to identity and access threats, especially those affecting multi-factor authentication.
• Contributions to a customer-facing defensive security or threat detection and response product.
• Publication of research and intelligence reports such as public threat advisories.
• Familiarity with identity security protocols such as SAML and WebAuthn.
• Collaboration with data scientists and/or detection engineers.
• Facilitation of red team exercises, penetration testing, or "Capture the Flag" competitions.
• Participation in the development of machine learning and AI systems.

Why Cisco Secure:

We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.

Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.

We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!

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When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

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