Sr Staff AI-ML Data Scientist (ADEM)

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.

• Lead the design and implementation of ML/LLM/GenAI-powered agents capable of planning, multi-step execution, self-correction, and seamless collaboration with humans or other agents.
• Build advanced reasoning pipelines, retrieval systems (RAG), and knowledge graph integrations that support autonomous task execution and network troubleshooting.
• Build, fine-tune, or adapt LLMs, multimodal models, and specialized agent models. Successfully integrate traditional AI/ML and statistical models into these agentic workflows to handle complex endpoint telemetry.
• Drive end-to-end solution development from prototype to production, ensuring maximum scalability, reliability, safety, observability, and performance.
• Establish best practices for prompt design, agent memory management, tool usage, and context optimization within the agent ecosystem.
• Continuously evaluate emerging agent frameworks, LLM tooling, and generative AI technologies to inform platform architecture and roadmap decisions.

• 5+ years in software engineering, with a track record of deploying production-grade ML, GenAI, or agentic workflows at scale.
• Strong Python (for AI/ML) combined with professional Go or Java experience for backend microservices.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, designing and restructuring BigQuery schemas, and building/managing scalable data pipelines using Dataflow, Google ADK and GKE
• Solid understanding of retrieval systems (RAG), prompt engineering, model evaluation, and statistical modeling.
• Ability to build platform-level services that integrate cleanly with adjacent ecosystems (e.g., Prisma Access, Cortex).
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Knowledge of L3-L7 networking is desirable .