Palo Alto Networks
Distinguished Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Security
$249K–$341K
Charlotte, United States of America +1 · Yes · Principal · Full-time · Posted Nov 3, 2026
- Location
- Charlotte, United States of America
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters - Experience
- 10+ years of professional software development and distributed systems architecture experience in production environments.
- Education
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Eligible for immigration sponsorship: Yes.
About the job
Architects, builds, and deploys secure enterprise AI workloads with Prisma AIRS, while contributing engineering improvements to the product and guiding enterprise adoption.
What you'll do
- Design and implement zero-trust AI security architectures, production integrations, middleware, and deployment modules.
- Optimize and support production systems, including resolving complex outages and distributed-systems failures.
- Contribute plugins and core enhancements to Prisma AIRS and turn recurring enterprise needs into product capabilities.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of professional software development and distributed systems architecture experience in production environments.
- Master-level proficiency in Python, Go, or C++, including asynchronous programming and high-concurrency systems.
- Experience with API gateways and enterprise protocols, plus expertise in LLM orchestration, vector databases, runtime guardrails, and prompt injection mitigation.
- Advanced knowledge of containerization, Kubernetes operators, service meshes, infrastructure-as-code, and enterprise security protocols.
Nice to have
- Experience building and securing autonomous AI agent architectures; contributions to AI security tools, red-teaming, or LLM vulnerability benchmarks.
- Observability and logging expertise using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Datadog; experience with synthetic data or ML-driven data sanitization.
Pay
$248,700.00 - $341,250.00/yr (USD, starting base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, C++, Envoy, Kong, gRPC, REST, Kubernetes
AI focus
Secures enterprise AI workloads, including prompt security, LLM traffic, agentic frameworks, runtime guardrails, and prompt injection mitigation; contributes to the Prisma AIRS AI security engine.
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