Sr Staff AI-ML Data Scientist (ADEM)

Palo Alto Networks' ADEM group is seeking an accomplished Sr. Staff AI-ML / Data Scientist to serve as a principal technical anchor for our next-generation AIOps platform. In this role, you will bridge the gap between advanced AI research and production-grade backend software engineering, turning massive system telemetry into autonomous, self-healing capabilities.

You will lead the technical design of intelligent, agentic workflows while simultaneously playing a pivotal role in our core backend rearchitecture. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who thrives on building advanced reasoning systems, optimizing large-scale data foundations, and mentoring engineering teams to deliver planet-scale impact.

Your Impact

• Lead the design and implementation of ML/LLM/GenAI-powered agents capable of planning, multi-step execution, self-correction, and seamless collaboration with humans or other agents.
• Build advanced reasoning pipelines, retrieval systems (RAG), and knowledge graph integrations that support autonomous task execution and network troubleshooting.
• Build, fine-tune, or adapt LLMs, multimodal models, and specialized agent models. Successfully integrate traditional AI/ML and statistical models into these agentic workflows to handle complex endpoint telemetry.
• Drive end-to-end solution development from prototype to production, ensuring maximum scalability, reliability, safety, observability, and performance.
• Establish best practices for prompt design, agent memory management, tool usage, and context optimization within the agent ecosystem.
• Continuously evaluate emerging agent frameworks, LLM tooling, and generative AI technologies to inform platform architecture and roadmap decisions.

Do you have experience in Statistics?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Your Experience

• 5+ years in software engineering, with a track record of deploying production-grade ML, GenAI, or agentic workflows at scale.
• Strong Python (for AI/ML) combined with professional Go or Java experience for backend microservices.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, designing and restructuring BigQuery schemas, and building/managing scalable data pipelines using Dataflow, Google ADK and GKE
• Solid understanding of retrieval systems (RAG), prompt engineering, model evaluation, and statistical modeling.
• Ability to build platform-level services that integrate cleanly with adjacent ecosystems (e.g., Prisma Access, Cortex).
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Knowledge of L3-L7 networking is desirable .

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/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

$141,000.00 - $228,075.00/yr

Our Commitment

We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.