Director AI Security Research (Prisma AIRS)
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Job Location:
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Your Career
The Prisma AIRS team is building the future of AI security. With organizations building complex ecosystems of AI models applications and agents a dynamic new attack surface is emerging. Prisma AIRS delivers a comprehensive platform for AI security encompassing model security posture management AI red teaming and runtime protection.
As the Director AI Security Research you will lead an elite team of researchers focused on discovering and mitigating novel threats against AI systems. You will be the organizations subject-matter expert on the AI attack surface blending deep technical research with strategic leadership. Your teams work will directly shape our product strategy inform our detection and prevention capabilities and establish Palo Alto Networks as the definitive leader in AI security research.
Your Impact
Lead Advanced Research: Build and mentor a world-class applied research team focused on discovering and creating proof-of-concepts for new security vulnerabilities related to AI models AI infrastructure and AI-driven applications.
Drive Protection Strategy: Partner directly with engineering and product leaders to translate research findings into tangible customer-facing security protections. Design practical product-level mitigations to prevent novel attacks on AI systems.
Innovate with AI: Leverage Palo Alto Networks security leadership to derive new insights identify emerging threat trends and build novel AI/ML-driven detection methodologies.
Thought Leadership: Serve as a primary AI security subject-matter expert for the company. Publish cutting-edge research through technical blogs white papers research papers and conference presentations establishing industry-wide influence.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product management and engineering teams to ensure our platform is protected against the threats you discover.
- Customer & Industry Engagement: Collaborate with industry partners the open-source community and key customers to share findings and advance the state of AI security.
Qualifications :
Your Experience
Education: MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field with a focus on AI/ML or cybersecurity is highly preferred.
Experience: 10 years of hands-on experience in the cybersecurity research field with at least 3 years in a leadership or management role.
AI/ML Expertise: Deep practical and theoretical knowledge of modern AI systems infrastructure and data pipelines. Proven track record of discovering security issues related to AI systems is a major plus.
Security Acumen: Strong understanding of the attacker mindset and proven experience in vulnerability research offensive security or threat detection engineering.
Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a strong ability to articulate highly complex technical concepts and research findings to diverse audiences including executives and customers.
Data-Driven: Strong proficiency in data analysis and scripting (e.g. Python) and hands-on experience with query languages and databases (SQL KQL etc.).
Nice to Have
A public portfolio of research including blog posts conference talks research papers or vulnerability disclosures.
Experience with cloud security (AWS GCP Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
Hands-on experience in building training and deploying ML models in a production environment.
Additional Information :
The Team
Compensation Disclosure
The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between:: $274400 - $290/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that 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: Yes
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in hi ... View more
