Senior AI Platform Engineer: Autonomous Agents & LLMs

Palo Alto Networks; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer (AI Platform) in Santa Clara, CA to design and build intelligent software agents, production-ready LLM pipelines, and predictive analytics across our product ecosystem.

You will bridge frontier AI models with scalable services, collaborating with Core AI/ML teams to drive high-availability architecture. You should have 6+ years in software or distributed systems, 2+ years building AI software and integrating LLMs, and strong

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering or distributed systems with a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building AI software, integrating LLMs, or developing predictive analytics into production applications.
• Proven track record with LLM APIs & SDKs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock) alongside practical prompt engineering and agent framework development.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, TypeScript (Node.js), or Go.
• Deep understanding of software architecture, asynchronous programming, distributed systems design, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Architect AI-Driven Systems: Design and build production-grade software applications, agentic workflows, and custom LLM integrations using Python, TypeScript, or Go.
• Engineer Autonomous Agents: Develop intelligent, self-executing software agents to automate complex operational tasks, drift detection, and application workflows.
• Integrate Predictive Analytics: Leverage predictive machine learning models to analyze application performance, system behavior, and operational spend patterns in real time.
• Build Next-Gen Observability & Security Tools: Implement intelligent observability frameworks and AI-driven automation for automated auditing and code/vulnerability patching via LLM interfaces.
• Bridge AI & Platform Architecture: Partner closely with Core AI/ML teams to translate frontier models into high-availability, high-throughput software services.
• Design Root Cause Analysis Workflows: Architect internal AI agents and diagnostic tools for automated Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and system

Skills

AI software

LLM integration

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Go

Prompt engineering

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

OpenAI APIs

Anthropic

Vertex AI

Bedrock

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Pulumi

Terraform

AWS CDK

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr. Staff Software Engineer (AI Platform) in Santa Clara, CA to design and build intelligent software agents, production-ready LLM pipelines, and predictive analytics across our product ecosystem.

You will bridge frontier AI models with scalable services, collaborating with Core AI/ML teams to drive high-availability architecture. You should have 6+ years in software or distributed systems, 2+ years building AI software and integrating LLMs, and strong