Distinguished Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Security
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$249k - $341k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead architectural reviews for zero-trust, high-availability AI safety topologies across enterprise environments.
- Write production-grade Python, Go, and C++ integrating Prisma AIRS with enterprise microservices and AI infrastructure.
- Build high-throughput middleware and proxy extensions for prompt security and identity-aware access controls.
- Develop automated infrastructure-as-code deployment modules and SDK wrappers.
- Optimize low-latency traffic paths for streaming LLM payloads, caching, and global load balancing.
- Serve as the tier-4 escalation point for critical production outages and distributed systems failures.
- Analyze telemetry pipelines and resolve failures across agentic frameworks including LangChain and LlamaIndex.
- Contribute plugins, platform optimizations, and core engine enhancements to Prisma AIRS repositories.
- Translate recurring enterprise architecture patterns into native product capabilities and author reference architectures and whitepapers.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software development and distributed systems architecture experience in production environments.
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
- Master-level proficiency in Python, Go, or C++, including asynchronous programming and high-concurrency systems.
- Extensive experience with API gateways such as Envoy and Kong, and enterprise protocols including gRPC and REST.
- Expert knowledge of LLM orchestration, vector databases, runtime guardrails, and prompt-injection mitigation.
- Advanced experience with containerization, 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.
- Ability to build consensus with executive leadership, translate mandates into engineering designs, present to executives, and debug live production incidents.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with autonomous AI agents, AI security tools, red-teaming research, LLM vulnerability benchmarks, observability platforms, synthetic data generation, ML-driven data sanitization, and offline evaluation sandboxes.
Benefits
- Remote role with hybrid collaboration across geographies.
- Compensation may include restricted stock units and a bonus in addition to base salary.
- Palo Alto Networks provides employee benefits and reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.