Zscaler

Sr. Staff Applied AI Engineer, GTM

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Remote, United States or Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$180k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with GTM leaders, RevOps, and product owners to map the revenue lifecycle, define the GTM AI roadmap, and advise on feasibility, cost, risk, and Build/Partner/Buy decisions.
  • Build and deploy secure, production-grade AI solutions using retrieval-augmented generation, structured-data querying, and agentic workflows.
  • Establish monitoring, evaluation, security controls, and ROI measurement tied to GTM KPIs.
  • Drive field adoption through collaboration with Sales Enablement, GTM Operations, and frontline managers, including user training and feedback loops.
  • Improve reusable retrieval pipelines, reference architectures, GTM data connectors, engineering playbooks, and team standards while mentoring engineers.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years working directly on AI and/or ML projects.
  • Direct experience developing AI strategy and shipping AI solutions for GTM functions such as Sales, Marketing, or Partner Enablement, with measurable impact on GTM metrics.
  • Hands-on experience with retrieval methods, reusable skills, agentic orchestration, Model Context Protocol, and agent-to-agent frameworks.
  • Experience translating ambiguous GTM problems into plans and communicating architecture, trade-offs, and risk to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience securing AI systems and accessed data, including least-privilege access and defenses against prompt injection, data leakage, and unsafe or non-compliant outputs.
  • Strong engineering skills, Python proficiency, experience integrating GTM systems of record, and experience deploying and monitoring AI systems on a major cloud platform.
  • Preferred experience driving operational efficiency with AI, working in B2B enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity GTM environments, and experience in RevOps, Sales Engineering, or GTM Strategy.
  • Preferred experience with graph-based knowledge systems, long-term agent memory, GraphRAG, account and relationship graphs, and persistent account context.
  • Preferred experience building automated AI evaluation frameworks, LLM-as-judge or regression testing, and A/B or holdout experiments measuring business lift.

Benefits

  • Various health plans.
  • Vacation and sick time plans.
  • Parental leave options.
  • Retirement options.
  • Education reimbursement.
  • In-office perks.
  • On-site in Santa Clara, California, or remote within the United States.

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About Zscaler

5,001-10,000 employees

Zscaler builds a cloud-delivered zero trust security platform that replaces traditional network security appliances for enterprises and public-sector organizations. Its Zero Trust Exchange provides secure web gateway, zero trust access, CASB, and cloud firewall services, sold as subscriptions and delivered across 160+ global data centers. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Jose, it is a public company on NASDAQ (ZS) serving thousands of customers worldwide.

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