Remote Distinguished Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; United States; Remoto; USD 249.000 - 341.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Distinguished Forward Deployed Engineer for Prisma AIRS to act as the principal technical authority within strategic enterprise teams. You will architect, build, and deploy secure AI workloads, write high-performance code, and define deployment standards that scale across environments.

You will influence the product roadmap and collaborate with leadership to translate complex requirements into engineered solutions.

Competenze

• 10+ years of professional software development and distributed systems architecture experience in production environments.
• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
• Master-level proficiency in Python, Go, or C++, with expertise in asynchronous programming and high-concurrency systems.
• Extensive background designing and operating API gateways (Envoy, Kong) and enterprise protocols (gRPC, REST).
• Expert-level knowledge of LLM orchestration, vector databases, runtime guardrails, and prompt injection mitigation.
• Advanced mastery of containerization, custom Kubernetes operators, service meshes, and infrastructure-as-code across major cloud providers.
• Comprehensive knowledge of enterprise security protocols, data loss prevention, and network segmentation frameworks.
• Proven ability to build consensus and partner with executive leadership to translate mandates into engineering designs.
• Hands-on builder mindset, comfortable presenting to executives and debugging live production incidents.

Mansioni

• 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.

Conoscenze

10+ years exp

Master's/PhD in CS/AI/Cybersecurity

Python/Go/C++

gRPC & REST

LLM orchestration

Kubernetes

API gateways (Envoy/Kong)

Security & compliance

Executive communication

Formazione

Master's/PhD in CS/AI/Cybersecurity

Strumenti

Envoy

Kong

Descrizione del lavoro

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Distinguished Forward Deployed Engineer for Prisma AIRS to act as the principal technical authority within strategic enterprise teams. You will architect, build, and deploy secure AI workloads, write high-performance code, and define deployment standards that scale across environments.

You will influence the product roadmap and collaborate with leadership to translate complex requirements into engineered solutions.