Senior Enterprise AI Security Engineer

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Palo Alto Networks protects tens of thousands of people every day from Cyber bad-actors, but who protects Palo Alto Networks? The Palo Alto Networks Enterprise Security team has this incredible responsibility and, as a Senior Enterprise AI Security Engineer, it’s your job to protect the team so we can protect the world!

As artificial intelligence transforms enterprise operations, you will take the lead in securing AI adoption across our entire organization. In this role, you will join a critical mission, spearheading the discovery and inventory of all enterprise AI usage, uncovering shadow AI tools, models, APIs and third-party integrations. Working closely with our Enterprise Security team, you will architect and deploy automated guardrails and remediation workflows that eliminate risk while empowering business acceleration.

Your Impact

• Lead the discovery, inventory and visibility efforts for all AI usage across the enterprise, systematically tracking approved systems, third-party SaaS tools, open-source models, developer plugins and shadow AI integrations.
• Architect, build and maintain automated remediation workflows and policy enforcement engines that mitigate AI risks without slowing engineering or business velocity.
• Design and deploy threat mitigation controls against AI-specific vulnerabilities, such as direct and indirect prompt injection, jailbreaking, training data poisoning and insecure output handling.
• Partner with Enterprise Data Protection team to design context-aware data loss prevention (DLP) controls, preventing unauthorized data ingestion or leakage into AI model pipelines.
• Conduct assessments for AI applications, agents, integrations (including MCP servers and tool connectors) and third-party AI products. 
• Research and implement emerging AI security frameworks and tooling (e.g., OWASP Top 10 for LLMs, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF).
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure and application security teams to review, document and harden model hosting environments, AI workloads and API gateways

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related STEM field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise security engineering, application security, cloud security, or security architecture.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in AI/ML security risks, including prompt injection, model evasion, data poisoning, insecure model supply chains and LLM application vulnerabilities.
• Demonstrated Experience in implementing AI guardrails (sensitive data and secrets detection, prompt-injection defenses and tool-call policies) across AI assistants, coding agents and internally built agents. 
• Proven experience building automated detection and remediation workflows. 
• Strong practical knowledge of core enterprise security domains: Identity & Access Management, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), endpoint security and Data Protection/DLP.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Go) for developing automation, API integrations and custom security tooling.
• Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills, with a track record of enabling business and engineering teams to adopt new technologies safely.
• Nice to have: Relevant cloud or security certifications (e.g., AWS solutions architect, Google Cloud certified - Associate, CCSP, PCNSE).

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Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$129,200.00 - $209,000.00/yr

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.