Principal Software Engineer Agentix AI (Cortex XSIAM)
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Job Summary
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks were united by a shared missionto 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 youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are youre 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. Thats why most of our teams work from the office full time with flexibility when its needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving stronger relationships and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.Job Summary
Your career
In this role you will act as the primary architect of the nervous system that bridges the gap between sophisticated AI models and real-world business logic. You will design and maintain the critical infrastructure that enables intelligent autonomous features to function reliably at scale moving beyond simple API wrappers to build deeply integrated AI systems. You will take ownership of the entire data flow where you will develop high-performance RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines and complex agentic workflows that provide users with accurate context-aware responses.
Your Impact
Champion system stability by implementing rigorous evaluation and monitoring frameworks ensuring that as our AI capabilities grow our production environment remains fast cost-effective and secure.
Ultimately you will be the technical force that transforms cutting-edge AI research into stable scalable products that define the future of our platform.
Qualifications
Your Experience:
- Keeps up with the latest research and stays on top of the fast-moving AI space with a real passion for whats happening in Generative AI.
- Regularly tries out different AI tools and sees how theyre useful in everyday work and life.
- Strong understanding of advanced prompting techniques like Chain-of-Thought ReAct and few-shot prompting.
- Experience working on model quantization or finding ways to optimize inference costs and token usage at scale.
- Hands-on experience with Python (FastAPI Django or Flask) or Go with a solid grasp of async programming and microservices.
- Experience turning a vague product idea (e.g. lets add a smart assistant) into clear concrete technical requirements.
Nice to have:
- Hands-on experience using frameworks like LangChain to build more complex LLM flows and agents.
- Experience working with vector databases.
- Comfortable building and using RESTful and GraphQL APIs especially when dealing with low-latency streaming (WebSockets Server-Sent Events).
- Enjoys digging into non-deterministic systems - when an LLM fails comfortable figuring out whether its the prompt the retrieval or the data.
- Familiar with AI-specific security risks like prompt injection and data leakage.
Our Commitment
Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant 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 .
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.Required Experience:
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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 ... View more
