Principal AI Engineer - Security Automation & LLM

CamWebDir; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Principal AI Engineer for its Security Autonomous SOC Team in the UK. You will transform AI/LLM research into production-ready security features, design and deploy scalable pipelines, and enhance our BI and CI/CD infrastructure to support cutting-edge AI initiatives.

The role emphasizes hands-on software development, strong Python skills, and practical experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration to scale AI across security products.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of proven experience in software engineering and delivering production-ready solutions.
• Expertise designing, building, and optimizing end-to-end LLM pipelines and AI agents.
• Strong Python programming skills with a robust software development background.
• Extensive experience with data engineering, CI/CD environments, and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes for scaling AI and LLM solutions.
• Hands-on knowledge of AI concepts, LLM APIs, and model fine-tuning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Agentic security solutions to improve detection, response, and remediation capabilities.
• Architect, implement, and optimize end-to-end LLM pipelines ensuring scalability from data ingestion to deployment.
• Develop and deploy AI agents leveraging LLMs to automate complex security decision-making tasks.
• Integrate LLM APIs and fine-tune models for specific cybersecurity use cases.
• Transform promising AI and LLM research concepts into mature, robust, and scalable production-ready features.
• Augment established BI data systems and CI/CD pipelines to support advanced AI development and experimentation.
• Develop specialized tools and frameworks extending infrastructure to support AI-driven security research and remediation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI innovations into customer-facing XDR, EDR, and SOAR platforms.

Skills

Python

AI engineering

LLMs

CI/CD

Data engineering

Security operations

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is hiring a Principal AI Engineer for its Security Autonomous SOC Team in the UK. You will transform AI/LLM research into production-ready security features, design and deploy scalable pipelines, and enhance our BI and CI/CD infrastructure to support cutting-edge AI initiatives.

The role emphasizes hands-on software development, strong Python skills, and practical experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration to scale AI across security products.