Principal Machine Learning Engineer (Prisma AIRS)
Palo Alto Networks1 month ago
Base Salary
$163k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop scalable anomaly detection pipelines for cloud environments and AI agent actions while maintaining low false-positive and false-negative rates.
- Lead small language model tuning and fine-tuning initiatives for low-latency edge-cloud security tasks.
- Develop data classification strategies using machine learning, NLP, and deep learning across massive structured and unstructured datasets.
- Serve as a technical leader partnering with product, security, and cloud engineering teams to integrate ML solutions into production systems.
- Design, build, and deploy high-performance distributed ML infrastructure and autonomous ML solutions that classify threats and prevent adversarial attacks.
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering industry experience, including at least 3 years dedicated to machine learning, NLP, or AI systems.
- Deep programming expertise in Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
- Proven experience with LLMs and SLMs, advanced prompt engineering, and model fine-tuning techniques.
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling auto-classification and anomaly detection models on massive real-world datasets.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity concepts and AI safety vulnerabilities, including prompt injection defense, AI red-teaming, or model security.
- Familiarity with DistilBERT, other open-source classification models, large graph-based datasets, and distributed cloud systems using GCP or AWS.
- Experience deploying scalable ML inference pipelines at scale.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with 3 days per week on-site at the Santa Clara corporate headquarters.
- The role is eligible for immigration sponsorship.
- Benefits may include restricted stock units and a bonus in addition to base compensation.
- Reasonable workplace accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities or special needs.
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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.