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Are you passionate about harnessing cutting-edge data science techniques to protect the world from cyber threats? Do you thrive in the dynamic world of cybersecurity? If so, we invite you to join our innovative and forward-thinking team at Palo Alto Networks, where you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of cybersecurity and impact millions of customers.
As a Senior Principal Data Scientist, you will be a technical leader and hands-on architect, bridging the worlds of advanced data science, robust software engineering, and next-generation AI. You will bring a deep, diverse background in classical machine learning algorithms alongside cutting-edge LLM agent architectures to build resilient, production-grade defense techniques against cyber-villains. Operating as a premier technical authority, you will drive the vision, design, and large-scale development of our groundbreaking, Agentix LLM-based security solutions that block attacks even before they begin.
Key Responsibilities
Serve as a hands-on technical compass for a diverse, elite product-oriented research team, pioneering state-of-the-art technologies and setting the engineering standards for AI/ML excellence across the organization.
Design, implement, and optimize robust Agentic LLM solutions and multi-agent workflows engineered to autonomously counter modern, sophisticated cyber threats.
Oversee and actively contribute to the entire end-to-end lifecycle, moving seamlessly from ambiguous research concepts and POCs to high-throughput, low-latency production deployments.
Build and enforce comprehensive frameworks for continuous real-time monitoring, evaluation, and guardrails to track model drift, latency, and agent behavior in production environments.
Decompose highly complex, multi-layered algorithmic problems into actionable technical roadmaps and strategic insights for both deeply technical engineers and executive business stakeholders.

As a Data Scientist, you will apply your expertise in software engineering, LLM agents, and cybersecurity to build new defense techniques against cyber-villains. You will be a driving force in designing and developing groundbreaking, Agentic LLM-based security solutions that block attacks before they begin. Join our innovative team to shape the future of cybersecurity and impact millions of customers.
Important: this role requires a unique combination of hands-on software engineering skills as well as previous experience with designing and delivering LLM-driven products.
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to a diverse and highly skilled research group that pioneers state-of-the-art technologies to protect our customers.
Utilize analytical rigor, statistical methods, programming, and data modeling to analyze vast amounts of data, applying your cybersecurity knowledge to guide our focus and approach.
Design and implement agentic LLM solutions to face modern cybersecurity challenges.
Decompose complex problems scientifically and provide actionable insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Lead and collaborate on end-to-end projects within the team and across engineering and product teams, from initial ideation to final deployment.

As a Senior Data Scientist on the AI Research & Reliability team, you will be a driving force in shaping the future of our company AI. You will act as a technical leader, working with cutting-edge LLMs, NLP, and machine learning to tackle our most ambiguous and complex customer problems. Working alongside Product, Engineering, and Data Scientist, you will spearhead the architecture, evaluation, and deployment of enterprise-grade AI capabilities at scale, while elevating the technical standards of the team.
You'll Own
The AI Technical Strategy: Lead the AI product lifecycle by partnering deeply with Product and Engineering to translate complex business needs into scalable, state-of-the-art AI solutions. Define the overarching AI approach, agent architectures, success metrics, and long-term technical vision before implementation.
Advanced Agentic Systems: Architect, build, and optimize complex sub-agents, tool-use mechanisms, retrieval systems, and memory architectures that power our company AI Agents. Establish industry-leading evaluation frameworks and benchmarks to rigorously measure and continuously improve workflow reliability.
Conversational Intelligence at Scale: Pioneer new NLP- and LLM-based methodologies to analyze massive, unstructured conversation datasets. You will design approaches that capture the deep intent, nuance, and strategic signals within human interactions.
Production-Grade Model Engineering: Architect highly robust and scalable Python pipelines. Set the standard for creating proprietary datasets, training/fine-tuning models, and integrating LLM-powered solutions into production environments serving millions of critical customer interactions.
You'll Solve
Complex Business Context Reasoning: Designing AI systems that can autonomously reason over vast, unstructured data spaces-combining conversations, CRM signals, and diverse data sources to uncover high-level insights and drive executive decision-making.
Architecting Intelligent Agent Experiences: Solving the hardest architectural challenges around long-term memory, multi-step reasoning, retrieval accuracy (RAG), and deterministic evaluation to ensure our company AI Agents deliver flawless, context-aware assistance.
Extracting Actionable Intelligence: Pushing the boundaries of applied NLP and LLMs to understand deep customer dynamics, foresee market trends, and transform raw, noisy conversations into structured, actionable intelligence across the customer lifecycle.
Advancing Applied AI Innovation: Leading experimentation with state-of-the-art AI approaches (advanced RAG architectures, parameter-efficient fine-tuning, complex agentic workflows) to solve novel product challenges and drastically improve AI quality and reliability.
You'll Impact
Global Sales Transformation: The foundational AI architectures you build will directly empower thousands of enterprises, fundamentally changing how revenue teams operate, strategize, and close deals.
Strategic Innovation to Implementation: You will bridge the gap between academic/bleeding-edge NLP developments and enterprise application, translating complex research into high-quality, scalable code that maintains our company's position as an AI industry leader.

As a Data Scientist, you will apply your expertise in software engineering, LLM agents, and cybersecurity to build new defense techniques against cyber-villains. You will be a driving force in designing and developing groundbreaking, Agentic LLM-based security solutions that block attacks before they begin. Join our innovative team to shape the future of cybersecurity and impact millions of customers.
Important: this role requires a unique combination of hands-on software engineering skills as well as previous experience with designing and delivering LLM-driven products.
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to a diverse and highly skilled research group that pioneers state-of-the-art technologies to protect our customers.
Utilize analytical rigor, statistical methods, programming, and data modeling to analyze vast amounts of data, applying your cybersecurity knowledge to guide our focus and approach.
Design and implement agentic LLM solutions to face modern cybersecurity challenges.
Decompose complex problems scientifically and provide actionable insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Lead and collaborate on end-to-end projects within the team and across engineering and product teams, from initial ideation to final deployment.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist to join our dynamic AI team. The ideal candidate blends a strong foundation in machine learning, statistics, and software engineering with a passion for modern, AI-accelerated development. You will be responsible for leading the research, design, and end-to-end development of cutting-edge machine learning systems at scale.
What you'll be doing:
Innovate at Scale: Design and deploy advanced ML solutions by leveraging our vast, large-scale datasets.
Build & Scale: Develop online, scalable models and tools using machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and modern LLM frameworks.
End-to-End Ownership: Drive projects through their entire lifecycle-from translating complex business questions into technical strategies, all the way to robust production deployment.
Production Excellence: Champion high engineering standards by building, monitoring, and optimizing resilient production workflows.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely alongside data scientists, ML engineers, product managers, analysts, and developers to solve complex, multi-faceted problems.

Were looking for a Data scientist Expert to join us and spread our power. As a Data Scientist you will be responsible for driving research and development of autonomous AI agents and LLM-powered systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to explore, innovate, and implement AI-driven solutions to tackle emerging threats, examine cloud security features, and enhance the companys security posture.
WHAT YOULL DO
Lead applied research on AI agents and LLM-driven features in the platform - from autonomous threat investigation agents to AI-powered security operations workflows
Cover a range of features - from leveraging LLMs to enhance customer investigation experience to novel usage of AI for cloud security
Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, and maintain production pipelines
Work closely with the Security Research and Product teams to define research goals
Conduct experiments and evaluate the performance of AI models, algorithms, and techniques using real-world datasets and simulated environments
Stay abreast of cutting-edge AI methodologies, frameworks, and tools and apply them to improve security solutions' accuracy, efficiency, and scalability.

Were looking for a Senior MLOps Engineer to be a core driver in how our product empowers security teams. You will be expected to deeply understand customer needs and translate them directly into product features that deliver real value. You'll own key parts of our frontend stack, drive key architectural decisions, and turn complex security data into clear, actionable business insights.

As we scale our AIDR product and expand deeper into model-driven security intelligence, we are looking for a Senior MLOps Engineer to own the infrastructure, tooling, and operational foundations that power our NLP and LLM training, evaluation, and deployment workflows.

You will architect and operate the systems that enable us to train, fine-tune, deploy, and monitor models at scale making ML reliable, fast, cost-efficient, and production-ready.

This is a high-visibility, high-impact role where you will partner closely with DevOps, Backend, Data, and Product to establish world-class ML infrastructure from the ground up.

What Youll Do

Build & Scale ML Pipelines
Design, build, and maintain pipelines for training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying NLP and LLM models across GPU and CPU environments.
Establish LLM-Focused CI/CD
Implement automated CI/CD workflows for ML models, including benchmarking, testing, performance gating, and production deployment.
Optimize Runtime & Inference
Select and optimize serving frameworks for low-latency, high-throughput inference, ensuring reliability and scalability.
Own ML Infrastructure
Manage training environments, experiment tracking, model registries, artifact versioning, and distributed training systems.
Operational Excellence
Monitor and optimize production models for performance, cost efficiency, availability, and observability.

Were looking for a Senior Data Science who is excited about designing and building production-grade AI systems powered by modern LLMs and machine learning.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of AI, engineering, and product, and who is passionate about turning cutting-edge AI capabilities into reliable, scalable systems that solve real customer problems.

Youll work closely with product managers, data scientists, and engineers to design, build, and deploy AI-powered solutions - including LLM pipelines, agents, and intelligent automation systems that power our core products.

This is a hands-on role where youll take ownership of the full lifecycle of AI features - from problem framing and architecture design to deployment, evaluation, and iteration in production.

Responsibilities
Design and build AI-powered systems that leverage LLMs, embeddings, and modern NLP techniques to transform raw product data into structured, actionable insights.
Develop and maintain production-grade AI pipelines including prompt workflows, agents, retrieval systems (RAG), and automated decision processes.
Work closely with product and engineering teams to translate business needs into scalable AI solutions.
Architect systems that combine LLMs, data pipelines, and traditional ML into robust end-to-end products.
Experiment with and integrate new AI tools, models, and frameworks to continuously improve system capabilities and performance.
Own the full lifecycle of AI features - from design and prototyping to deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
Ensure reliability and performance of AI systems in production, including evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and monitoring.
Collaborate across teams to define best practices for AI system design, prompt engineering, and agent orchestration.
Collaborate closely with cross-functional team members, effectively communicate complex ideas, share knowledge, and mentor engineers and data scientists to elevate team standards and impact.

We are looking for a passionate Senior Data Scientist to join our all-star team. This is an amazing opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary A-team while working in a fast-paced, results, marketing and data-oriented environment. If you are experienced but still hungry to learn and impact - wed love to have you on our team!

What Youll Do:
Devise, initiate, manage and execute cutting-edge exploration and exploitation projects.
Apply your knowledge of Data Science, Machine Learning and AI-driven algorithms to create scalable data solutions.
Analyze extremely large (petabytes) and diverse datasets to solve complex problems, and develop automated, intelligent systems to address them.
Design, build and deploy AI/ML models (including predictive models, recommendation systems and generative AI solutions) to drive business impact.
Leverage modern AI tools and frameworks to accelerate research and production workflows.
Proactively seek growth opportunities aligned with core KPIs.
Enable real-time and near real-time data insights - instant data gratification guaranteed.

As a Senior Data Scientist on Research team, youll develop and productionize ML/AI models that power our classifications and insights. Youll partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn open-ended data-security challenges into measurable experiments and shipped features. Youll own the end-to-end lifecycle-from problem framing and data strategy to evaluation, deployment, and ongoing monitoring-helping customers discover, protect, and govern their data at scale.



What Youll Do

Responsibility for an end-to-end research process. That includes identifying the problem, feature engineering, model development to deployment, outcome analysis, and refinement.
You will be a hands-on domain leader, laying the foundations of our data science workflows and algorithms. This is an excellent opportunity to work with endless amounts of user data and creatively generate insights that will increase the ability to classify tons of data.
Develop, evaluate, and maintain machine learning and NLP solutions to enhance core capabilities in sensitive data classification.
Innovation and creative thinking are the keys! Implementing ML models to the entire research process - clustering, text extraction, document analysis, and tabular data classification.
Close interaction and collaboration with an excellent team of engineers, data analysts, and security researchers.