Senior AI Engineer — AI-First Enterprise Systems

Palo Alto Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 233,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an experienced IT Automation & AI Engineering professional to shape AI-first enterprise applications. You will own architectural patterns, drive scalable AI capabilities, and collaborate across teams to deliver secure, high‑impact software platforms.

You will guide design decisions for cloud-native services, API integration, and production operations while mentoring engineers and advancing technical standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Senior: 5+ years of software engineering experience (or 3+ with a Master’s degree).
• Staff: 8+ years of software engineering experience (or 6+ with a Master’s degree, or 3+ with a PhD).
• Strong full-stack and distributed systems engineering experience with demonstrated ownership of complex production systems.
• Production experience designing and building AI-integrated systems using LLMs, RAG, embeddings, tool calling, or agentic workflows.
• Experience with AI orchestration, retrieval, evaluation, guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows, and production observability.
• Strong understanding of APIs, enterprise data, cloud-native architecture, security, reliability, and production operations.
• Proven ability to translate ambiguous problems into clear technical architectures and influence technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver production AI-first enterprise applications across full-stack systems, cloud-native services, and applied AI.
• Design agentic and retrieval-based systems utilizing LLMs, RAG, embeddings, tool calling, and multi-step workflows.
• Establish robust practices for AI evaluation, guardrails, security, observability, reliability, latency, and cost management.
• Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable technical architectures and drive complex initiatives through production.
• Build reusable engineering patterns and shared capabilities applicable across multiple applications and development teams.
• Drive AI-native engineering practices using tools like Cursor and Claude Code while mentoring engineers and raising technical standards.

Skills

Full-stack

Distributed systems

AI integration

APIs & cloud-native

Security & reliability

Education

BSc in CS/Engineering

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

React

Python

SQL

Vertex AI

LangChain

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking an experienced IT Automation & AI Engineering professional to shape AI-first enterprise applications. You will own architectural patterns, drive scalable AI capabilities, and collaborate across teams to deliver secure, high‑impact software platforms.

You will guide design decisions for cloud-native services, API integration, and production operations while mentoring engineers and advancing technical standards.