[Remote] Distinguished Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Security

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting digital environments through innovative security technologies. The Distinguished Forward Deployed Engineer will serve as the principal technical authority for Prisma AIRS, architecting, building, and deploying secure enterprise AI workloads while providing technical leadership, production support, and contributions to the core product engine.

Responsibilities

• Lead Architectural Design Reviews to build zero-trust, high-availability AI safety topologies across enterprise environments
• Write production-grade code (Python, Go, C++) integrating Prisma AIRS into enterprise microservices and AI infrastructure
• Build high-throughput middleware and proxy extensions for real-time prompt security and identity-aware access controls
• Architect automated IaC deployment modules and SDK wrappers to accelerate rapid enterprise product adoption
• Optimize low-latency traffic paths for streaming LLM payloads, intelligent caching, and global load balancing
• Serve as the ultimate tier-4 escalation point for mission-critical production outages and complex distributed systems
• Analyze telemetry pipelines to resolve edge-case failures across agentic frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex
• Upstream custom plugins, platform optimizations, and core engine enhancements to primary Prisma AIRS repositories
• Partner with cross-functional leadership to convert recurring enterprise architectural patterns into native product capabilities
• Author enterprise reference architectures and whitepapers to establish industry standards for AI security and compliance

Skills

• 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++, with expertise in asynchronous programming and high-concurrency systems
• Extensive background designing and operating API gateways (Envoy, Kong) and enterprise protocols (gRPC, REST)
• Expert-level knowledge of LLM orchestration, vector databases, runtime guardrails, and prompt injection mitigation
• Advanced mastery of containerization, custom 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
• Proven ability to build consensus and partner with executive leadership to translate mandates into engineering designs
• Hands-on builder mindset, comfortable presenting to executives and debugging live production incidents
• Deep experience building, evaluating, and securing autonomous AI agent architectures and tool-use execution environments
• Prior contribution to open-source AI security tools, red-teaming research, or LLM vulnerability benchmark suites
• Expertise in architecting large-scale observability and logging infrastructure using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog
• Hands-on experience with automated synthetic data generation, ML-driven data sanitization pipelines, and offline evaluation sandboxes

Benefits

• The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus.
• This role is remote.
• Immigration sponsorship is available.

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