Palo Alto Networks
Principal/Sr. Principal AI Engineer - IT Business Applications
$185K–$299K
Office - USA - CA - Headquarters · No · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 24, 2026
- Experience
- Principal: 12+ years (or 8+ with a Master's degree); Sr. Principal: 15+ years (or 12+ with a Master's, or 8+ with a PhD).
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Immigration sponsorship: Yes
About the job
Leads the design, delivery, and operation of secure enterprise AI platforms and agentic workflows for Marketing, Sales, and Lead-to-Cash processes.
What you'll do
- Architect enterprise AI systems and API strategies, including agentic, RAG, hybrid, and traditional architectures.
- Lead GenAI transformations, evaluation and optimization, and AI security across business workflows.
- Drive cross-team technical initiatives and communicate architecture and trade-offs to executives.
What they ask for
- Principal: 12+ years of experience, or 8+ with a Master's degree; Sr. Principal: 15+ years, or 12+ with a Master's, or 8+ with a PhD.
- Track record architecting and shipping enterprise distributed systems and full-stack AI platforms.
- Expert Python and mastery of additional core languages (Go, Java, Node.js); deep cloud-native microservices and distributed architecture expertise.
- Mastery of LLMs, orchestration, multi-agent architectures, and dynamic retrieval pipelines.
Pay
$185,200.00 - $299,475.00/yr USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Go, Java, Node.js, AWS, Azure, GCP, LangChain
AI focus
Builds production AI solutions using LLMs, agents, RAG, embeddings, reasoning pipelines, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent networks; establishes AI evaluation, optimization, and security practices.
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