Senior Enterprise AI Security Engineer
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
USA (city not specified)Senior
Base Salary
$129k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery, inventory, and visibility efforts for enterprise AI usage, including approved systems, SaaS tools, open-source models, developer plugins, and shadow AI integrations.
- Architect, build, and maintain automated remediation workflows and policy enforcement engines for AI risks.
- Design and deploy controls against prompt injection, jailbreaking, training data poisoning, and insecure output handling.
- Partner with Enterprise Data Protection to design context-aware DLP controls for AI model pipelines.
- Assess AI applications, agents, integrations, MCP servers, tool connectors, and third-party AI products.
- Research and implement AI security frameworks and tooling, including OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, MITRE ATLAS, and NIST AI RMF.
- Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, and application security teams to harden model-hosting environments, AI workloads, and API gateways.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related STEM field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in enterprise security engineering, application security, cloud security, or security architecture.
- Technical expertise in AI/ML security risks, including prompt injection, model evasion, data poisoning, insecure model supply chains, and LLM application vulnerabilities.
- Experience implementing AI guardrails for sensitive data and secrets detection, prompt-injection defenses, and tool-call policies.
- Experience building automated detection and remediation workflows.
- Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management, cloud infrastructure, endpoint security, and data protection/DLP.
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming or scripting language such as Python or Go.
- Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills.
- Cloud or security certifications such as AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Associate certification, CCSP, or PCNSE are preferred.
Benefits
- The role is primarily office-based, with flexibility when needed.
- The posting references employee benefits but does not list specific benefits.
About Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto Networks builds cybersecurity products for enterprises and governments, including next-generation firewalls, cloud security (Prisma Cloud/Prisma Access), and SOC tools (Cortex). It sells subscriptions and appliances with cloud-delivered threat intelligence, securing networks, endpoints, and applications across data centers and public clouds. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker PANW.