Enterprise AI Architect — Principal / Senior Principal

Palo Alto Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 299,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is hiring AI Engineers at Principal/Senior Principal levels for the IT Business Applications team. You will design and deliver production AI solutions using LLMs, agents, and RAG to support Marketing, Sales, and the lead-to-cash lifecycle.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires translating requirements into scalable architecture, partnering with stakeholders, and delivering end-to-end production operations.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience for Principal; 15+ for Sr. Principal (with degrees as noted).
• Track record of architecting and shipping enterprise-grade distributed systems.
• Expert Python and cloud-native microservices; experience with LLMs and multi-agent systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and govern enterprise AI platforms and unified API strategies.
• Lead GenAI transformations across GTM workflows.
• Design cost and performance optimization engines for AI queries.
• Set security standards for AI safety and data protection.
• Communicate technical visions to executives and uplift engineering capabilities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Python

Cloud-native

AI systems

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is hiring AI Engineers at Principal/Senior Principal levels for the IT Business Applications team. You will design and deliver production AI solutions using LLMs, agents, and RAG to support Marketing, Sales, and the lead-to-cash lifecycle.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires translating requirements into scalable architecture, partnering with stakeholders, and delivering end-to-end production operations.