Principal Technical Product Engineer - Agentic AI & Automation (Cortex)
Palo Alto Networks24 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$163k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technical strategy and reference architectures for agentic AI, security automation, orchestration, and autonomous security workflows.
- Serve as a global subject-matter expert advising internal teams, strategic customers, partners, and executives on AI-driven security operations.
- Identify and prototype AI-agent and automation workflows for investigation, triage, enrichment, detection analysis, response, remediation, and reporting.
- Create demonstrations, proof-of-concept environments, implementation guides, technical workshops, whitepapers, and executive briefings.
- Partner with Product Management and Engineering to convert customer challenges into product requirements, roadmap priorities, and scalable capabilities.
- Work with strategic customers to validate use cases, measure outcomes, and identify repeatable patterns.
- Develop frameworks for human augmentation, autonomous automation, human approval, governance, validation, permissions, and operational guardrails.
- Track developments in agentic AI, LLMs, AI security, autonomous systems, and security operations and translate them into practical customer opportunities.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, strategic customers, and emerging technologies.
- Exceptional professional presence and confidence advising security practitioners and C-level executives.
- Strong understanding of Security Operations Center workflows, SIEM, SOAR, XDR, CNAPP, automation, and orchestration.
- Demonstrated experience automating complex technical or operational workflows.
- Hands-on experience with generative AI, LLMs, AI agents, agentic workflows, or AI-powered security technologies.
- Understanding of safe AI adoption in security operations, including human-in-the-loop controls, governance, validation, permissions, and operational guardrails.
- Experience working directly with strategic enterprise customers and major cloud infrastructure providers.
- Strong technical understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern security operations.
- Ability to prototype or build technical solutions using APIs, automation frameworks, scripting, orchestration platforms, or cloud services.
- Excellent presentation and technical writing skills, including experience delivering demos, technical workshops, architectural guidance, whitepapers, and executive briefings.
- Experience with XSIAM, Cortex XSOAR, Cortex XDR, Cortex Cloud, CNAPP, SIEM, SOAR, or comparable technologies.
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, APIs, and cloud-native services is a plus.
- Experience developing or integrating AI agents, LLM-based applications, MCP/tool integrations, or agentic workflows is a plus.
Benefits
- Remote role with hybrid teams collaborating across geographies.
- Employee benefits are available as described in the company benefits information.
- Reasonable 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.