Senior Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer (Remote)

Palo Alto Networks

Charlotte (NC)

Remote

USD 249,000 - 341,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Distinguished Forward Deployed Engineer for Prisma AIRS to serve as the principal technical authority embedded within strategic enterprise teams. You will architect, build, and deploy secure enterprise-grade AI workloads to production, writing high-performance code and defining deployment standards across AI infrastructure.

You will lead architectural reviews, integrate into microservices, and drive automation via IaC, while aligning with executive leadership to

Qualifications

10+ years of professional software development and distributed systems architecture experience.
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.

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.