Senior AI Security Engineer — Enterprise Guardrails

Palo Alto Networks, Inc.; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 129,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Enterprise AI Security Engineer to protect the team as we secure AI adoption across the organization. You will lead discovery of all AI usage, uncover shadow AI tools, and implement automated guardrails and remediation workflows to eliminate risk while enabling business acceleration.

As AI transforms enterprise operations, you will architect controls against AI vulnerabilities and collaborate with Enterprise Data Protection to prevent data leakage from AI

Qualifications

• Experience in AI/ML security risks including prompt injection and data poisoning.
• Experience implementing AI guardrails and tool-call policies.
• Proven ability to build automated detection and remediation workflows.
• Strong knowledge of Identity & Access Management, Cloud Infrastructure, endpoint security and Data Protection/DLP.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery, inventory and visibility for AI usage across the enterprise.
• Architect, build and maintain automated remediation workflows and policy engines.
• Design threat mitigation controls for AI-specific vulnerabilities.
• Partner with Enterprise Data Protection to design context-aware DLP controls.
• Assess AI applications, agents, integrations and third-party AI products.
• Research and implement emerging AI security frameworks and tooling.
• Collaborate with security teams to harden model hosting environments and AI workloads.

Skills

AI/ML security

Security engineering

Cloud security

Automation scripting

Python

Cross-functional leadership

Core security domains

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/CE/Cybersecurity

Tools

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Senior Enterprise AI Security Engineer to protect the team as we secure AI adoption across the organization. You will lead discovery of all AI usage, uncover shadow AI tools, and implement automated guardrails and remediation workflows to eliminate risk while enabling business acceleration.

As AI transforms enterprise operations, you will architect controls against AI vulnerabilities and collaborate with Enterprise Data Protection to prevent data leakage from AI