Principal Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Emploive; Charlotte, Northern (NC, KY); Hybrid; USD 249,000 - 341,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Distinguished Forward Deployed Engineer for Prisma AIRS to serve as the technical authority embedded within strategic enterprise teams.

You will architect, build, and deploy secure AI workloads, write high-performance code, and shape deployment standards across complex environments. This role blends AI safety with robust distributed systems in production settings.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development and distributed systems architecture.
• Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead Architectural Design Reviews to build zero-trust, high-availability AI safety topologies across enterprise environments.
• Write production-grade code (Python, Go, C++) integrating Prisma AIRS into enterprise microservices and AI infrastructure.
• Build high-throughput middleware and proxy extensions for real-time prompt security and identity-aware access controls.
• Architect automated IaC deployment modules and SDK wrappers to accelerate rapid enterprise product adoption.
• Optimize low-latency traffic paths for streaming LLM payloads, intelligent caching, and global load balancing.
• Serve as the ultimate tier-4 escalation point for mission-critical production outages and complex distributed systems.
• Analyze telemetry pipelines to resolve edge-case failures across agentic frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex.
• Upstream custom plugins, platform optimizations, and core engine enhancements to primary Prisma AIRS repositories.
• Partner with cross-functional leadership to convert recurring enterprise architectural patterns into native product capabilities.
• Author enterprise reference architectures and whitepapers to establish industry standards for AI security and compliance.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Asynchronous programming

High concurrency

APIs gateways

LLM orchestration

Containerization

Kubernetes

Security awareness

Education

Master’s/PhD in CS/AI/Cybersecurity

Tools

Envoy

Kong

gRPC

REST

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Distinguished Forward Deployed Engineer for Prisma AIRS to serve as the technical authority embedded within strategic enterprise teams.

You will architect, build, and deploy secure AI workloads, write high-performance code, and shape deployment standards across complex environments. This role blends AI safety with robust distributed systems in production settings.