Zscaler
Sr. Staff Applied AI Engineer, GTM
$180K–$225K
Remote - USA +3 · Remote · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Remote - USA
Santa Clara, California, USA
Santa Clara, California, USA
Remote - USA - Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years working directly on AI and/or ML projects.
About the job
Build secure, production-grade AI solutions for go-to-market teams while shaping GTM AI strategy and measuring business outcomes such as pipeline and seller productivity.
What you'll do
- Partner with GTM leaders to map revenue workflows, set the AI roadmap, and advise on feasibility, risk, cost, and Build/Partner/Buy decisions.
- Design, deploy, secure, monitor, and evaluate AI solutions tied to GTM KPIs; drive field adoption and user feedback.
- Develop reusable technical standards and building blocks, and mentor other engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years working directly on AI and/or ML projects.
- Experience driving AI strategy and execution for GTM functions, including shipping solutions used by customer-facing teams with measurable GTM impact.
- Hands-on experience with modern AI components, including retrieval, reusable skills, agentic orchestration, MCP, and A2A frameworks.
- Experience securing and deploying AI systems at scale; proficiency in Python and experience monitoring AI systems on a major cloud platform.
Nice to have
- GTM experience at a B2B enterprise SaaS or cybersecurity company; RevOps, Sales Engineering, or GTM Strategy experience is a plus.
- Experience with graph-based knowledge systems, long-term agent memory, automated evaluations, or experiments measuring business lift.
Pay
$180,000 — $225,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent-to-agent (A2A) frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, GraphRAG
AI focus
Apply AI to GTM workflows, including retrieval-augmented generation, structured-data querying, agentic workflows, secure AI deployment, evaluation, and business-impact measurement.
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