Staff/Sr. Staff AI Engineer - IT Business Applications
Palo Alto Networks3 days ago
Base Salary
$163k - $264k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate business requirements into scalable AI architectures meeting performance, reliability, scalability, security, and observability requirements.
- Build proxy-first AI ecosystems and unified API endpoints that abstract LLM complexity and support vendor independence.
- Design and implement multi-agent systems and agent-to-agent workflows for GTM, customer support, sales compensation, and entitlement platforms.
- Implement AI observability pipelines covering traces, prompts, outputs, model latency, and cost, along with LLM evaluation and feedback loops.
- Build input/output guardrails, defend against PII exposure and prompt injection, and implement graceful degradation for component failures.
- Drive features and subsystems from prototype through production, mentor engineers, uphold engineering standards, and communicate technical trade-offs to business partners.
Requirements
- Staff candidates require 5+ years of experience, or 3+ years with a master's degree; Senior Staff candidates require 8+ years, or 6+ years with a master's degree or 3+ years with a PhD.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Expert proficiency in Python and strong proficiency in Go, Java, or Node.js.
- Deep experience with microservices, distributed systems, and cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Hands-on experience building production applications with GPT-4, Llama 3, Anthropic Claude, and orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph.
- Understanding of RESTful API design, event-driven architectures, CI/CD, and Agile/Scrum delivery.
- Preferred experience with LangSmith, Arize, or HoneyHive.
Benefits
- Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
- Employee benefits are provided through the company's benefits program.
- The company offers reasonable accommodations 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.