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Required Sr. Principal AI Researcher, AI Transformation
Job Summary
Shape the future of AI-powered software engineering. As part of our AI Transformation group, youll join a multidisciplinary group building state-of-the-art, agentic AI systems that directly elevate the productivity of thousands of internal engineers.
We build internal AI infrastructure, frameworks, agents, harnesses, methodologies, and adoption programs powered by cutting-edge LLMs. Whether you are researching novel AI paradigms, architecting platform infrastructure, engineering end-to-end agentic tools, or driving developer enablement, your work will redefine how software gets built at scale.
This is an applied AI research role, where you will be inventing new technology, bringing the latest innovations into our agentic software development practices, and responsible for co-building systems that get deployed to our entire, global Cortex engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Stay at the forefront of AI advancements in agentic coding and integrate state-of-the-art techniques.
Build functional Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and architectural skeletons to evaluate new AI techniques before scaling.
Critically audit and challenge internal AI solutions, benchmarks, and architectures to prevent technological obsolescence.
Design rigorous testing methodologies to assess model accuracy, latency, cost efficiency, and drift across solutions.
Research and design advanced knowledge-retrieval architectures, including standard and graph-based RAG and hybrid contextual search.
Collaborate with core AI engineering to transition validated prototypes into reusable components for our engineering workforce.
Coordinate closely with the US Foundational AI Research team via flexible evening Israel / morning US meetings.

Required Principal / Sr. Principal Security Research - Advanced Cyber Research (Cortex)
We are seeking a visionary and highly technical Principal / Sr. Principal Security Researcher to join our security research team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of innovating automated defense systems to rapidly protect platform customers against advanced cyber threats at an unprecedented scale. This position offers a unique opportunity to blend deep traditional cybersecurity expertise - including OS internals, reverse engineering, and advanced detection engineering with cutting-edge AI technologies like LLMs, SLMs, and agentic workflows.
You will spearhead the creation of innovative prevention solutions, leveraging massive streams of agent telemetry to design AI-driven logic that neutralizes threats before they execute. As a key technical leader, you will partner closely with top-tier data scientists and product engineers to translate cutting-edge security research into production-grade capabilities, ensuring we stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop Automated Defense Systems:Create, engineer, and deploy automated solutions for the prevention and detection of advanced cyber threats, analyzing complex data to rapidly protect platform customers at scale.
Innovate with AI:Partner closely with data scientists to leverage LLMs, SLMs & deeplearning techniques to fuel these advanced prevention solutions and automated defense capabilities.
Research, develop, and continuously improve the Agentix solution. Drive the development of next-generation security content by designing and implementing specialized AI agents to automate security operations and workflows.
Drive Security Innovations:Spearhead new research initiatives from the ground up. Act as the primary driver across key stakeholders, leading top-tier data scientists and engineers to ensure the successful delivery of enterprise-grade security capabilities.

We are seeking a visionary and highly technical Principal / Sr. Principal Security Researcher to join our security research team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of innovating automated defense systems to rapidly protect platform customers against advanced cyber threats at an unprecedented scale. This position offers a unique opportunity to blend deep traditional cybersecurity expertise - including OS internals, reverse engineering, and advanced detection engineering with cutting-edge AI technologies like LLMs, SLMs, and agentic workflows.
You will spearhead the creation of innovative prevention solutions, leveraging massive streams of agent telemetry to design AI-driven logic that neutralizes threats before they execute. As a key technical leader, you will partner closely with top-tier data scientists and product engineers to translate cutting-edge security research into production-grade capabilities, ensuring we stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape.
Key Responsibilities
Develop Automated Defense Systems:Create, engineer, and deploy automated solutions for the prevention and detection of advanced cyber threats, analyzing complex data to rapidly protect platform customers at scale.
Innovate with AI:Partner closely with data scientists to leverage LLMs, SLMs & deeplearning techniques to fuel these advanced prevention solutions and automated defense capabilities.
Enhance Palo Alto Networks Agentix:Research, develop, and continuously improve the Agentix solution. Drive the development of next-generation security content by designing and implementing specialized AI agents to automate security operations and workflows.
Drive Security Innovations:Spearhead new research initiatives from the ground up. Act as the primary driver across key stakeholders, leading top-tier data scientists and engineers to ensure the successful delivery of enterprise-grade security capabilities.

We're looking for an AI Security Researcher with a strong AppSec foundation. At the core, this is a deeply technical application security role at an engineering level. You'll sit with development teams, get involved in their processes, understand how software is actually built, and bring a security perspective from the inside. You'll enhance traditional AppSec with agentic tools and security layers, working directly with enterprise customers on hands-on engagements. On top of that defensive foundation, you'll layer AI-specific offensive capabilities: researching and executing attacks against AI/ML systems.
This is a unique opportunity to combine strong AppSec fundamentals with cutting-edge AI red teaming and agentic consulting, with a clear growth path as a researcher.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Conduct deep, engineering-level application security work: review architectures, assess code, and embed with development teams as a technical peer throughout the development lifecycle
Lead AI-focused security assessments and red team engagements for enterprise customers, identifying vulnerabilities in AI/ML systems, agentic workflows, and LLM-based applications
Enhance traditional AppSec processes with agentic tools and AI security layers
Research and develop novel attack techniques targeting AI/ML systems, including prompt injection, model manipulation, and agentic framework exploits
Translate offensive findings into actionable security recommendations for customers and internal teams
Stay at the forefront of AI security: continuously research emerging attack surfaces and contribute to the growing body of AI threat knowledge.

We are looking for a talented AI Applied Researcher to help us develop advanced AI solutions that will empower impactful projects. The Data Science team leads the AI research and innovation efforts of the company, and is focused on pushing AI boundaries to enhance the product and optimize processes.
What Youll Do:
Enterprise AI Agent Development: Designing, building, and deploying AI agents that automate and augment high-value workflows across business functions
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration: Owning the end-to-end agent stack - from tool use, memory management, and multi-step planning to human-in-the-loop escalation patterns, guardrails and audit trails.
Evaluation & Continuous Improvement: Defining agent evaluation frameworks that measure task completion, accuracy, hallucination rates, latency, and business impact - then iterating on agent behavior based on real usage data and stakeholder feedback.
Collaborate with engineering teams to design, build, and maintain production pipelines.
Stay up to date with the latest developments in AI, machine learning, and related fields, focusing on LLMs, exploring how emerging technologies can be applied to improve products and services.

As an AI Researcher, youll be part of the team building the AI systems that power our products. Youll work across research and engineering - from training and post-training state-of-the-art LLMs to applying them to challenging real-world problems such as agentic behavior, coding, and security-related decision-making.

This is a hands-on research role with a strong focus on taking ideas from experimentation to production. Youll have significant ownership and the opportunity to shape both the direction of our AI research and the systems we build around it.

WHAT YOU WILL DO
Train, adapt, and scale state-of-the-art LLMs using techniques such as post-training SFT, knowledge distillation, LoRA, and reinforcement learning.
Develop and evaluate new algorithms and approaches, bridging cutting-edge academic research with production-grade AI systems.
Optimize models for production, balancing quality, latency, throughput, and cost at scale.
Own the AI lifecycle-from algorithmic prototyping and synthetic data generation to evaluation, deployment, and iteration of production AI features.
Work closely with engineering and product teams to translate research advances into impactful AI capabilities.
Lead research initiatives that advance the capabilities of our AI systems.

We are looking for an AI Researcher to help build the intelligence behind our AI security platform.

This is a hands-on research role focused on understanding how modern large language models and AI agents behave, identifying new attack vectors and protection techniques, and translating cutting-edge research into production-ready capabilities. The intelligence developed by this team is a core differentiator of our platform and a key driver of the company's success.

You will work at the intersection of machine learning, LLMs, and cybersecurity, partnering closely with AI engineers and product teams to develop technologies that directly power our product. We're looking for someone who enjoys understanding how neural networks and foundation models work, pushes the boundaries of AI research, and is excited to see their work deployed into production and used by customers.

What you will do
Research the behavior, capabilities, and limitations of modern large language models and AI agents.
Design novel techniques for detecting, evaluating, and proactively protecting against AI threats, prompt injection, model misuse, and emerging attack vectors.
Develop new approaches for securing AI systems and improving the intelligence that powers our platform.
Design and run experiments to evaluate model behavior, validate new ideas, and measure the effectiveness of protection techniques.
Build research prototypes and turn them into production-ready capabilities.
Work closely with Product and Engineering to translate research into scalable product features.
Stay current with advances in LLMs, foundation models, post-training techniques, AI security, and AI safety.
Contribute to the long-term technical direction of our AI security platform.

We are seeking a Senior Applied Researcher/ Data Scientist to join our core product organization, where you will build and deploy next-generation AI models powering real-world cybersecurity use cases across our diverse product portfolio (Posture, Detection, and CTI). The role centers on building and scaling intelligent systems powered by LLMs, advanced ML techniques, and agent-based architectures.
You will join a team within our Cyber R&D organization, leading the companys core product portfolio-while driving AI innovation and setting best practices across the domain. The group focuses on developing next-generation technologies, including training and optimizing LLMs and building advanced multi-agent workflows, while mentoring data scientists across R&D.
As a key technical leader, you will guide the evolution of our AI capabilities-converting cutting-edge ideas into impactful, production-ready systems and shaping our long-term direction.
We are looking for visionary applied researchers eager to take on ambitious challenges and push the boundaries of AI in cybersecurity.
Responsibilities
Design and build advanced AI models and systems that power our core products and address real-world cybersecurity challenges.
Own initiatives end-to-end from identifying customer-driven problems and shaping solutions to experimentation, prototyping, and production deployment.
Drive forward new ideas and research directions, turning emerging concepts into practical, scalable solutions.
Influence the organizations roadmap and contribute to long-term technical strategy across our AI and product landscape.

We are seeking a Senior / Principal Security Researcher to join our high-caliber Security ML Team. Our team solves complex security challenges using disruptive technologies, AI/ML algorithms, and massive datasets to design and develop groundbreaking security solutions that transition directly from research into production-grade protection.
In this role, you will serve as the core security domain expert within a multidisciplinary team, providing essential security-side expertise to assist in the development of ML models, deeplearning models, and Small Language Models (SLMs). By translating complex malware behaviors and static file attributes into actionable logic, your research will directly shape the algorithms that protect millions of endpoints worldwide. If you are looking to autonomously drive high-impact research initiatives from inception to production and use data-informed critical thinking to influence advanced security modeling, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
The Bridge to the AI Ecosystem: Serve as the core security domain expert within a multidisciplinary team, translating complex malware behaviors and static file attributes into actionable features, labels, or heuristics-fueling AI algorithms and automated, data-driven security logic.
Telemetry & Sensor Optimization:Analyze raw endpoint telemetry (such as memory buffers, hook outputs, and IPC artifacts) to evaluate algorithm effectiveness and work with AI researchers to tweak or implement new models..
Deconstruct File Behavior: Look past the "black box" of machine learning by digging into executable formats (PE, ELF, Mach-O) and scripts to identify malicious behavior(e.g., packing, anomalous imports, obfuscation).
Drive Intelligent Protections:Take a security hypothesis, validate it via data analysis, and build Python-based proof-of-concepts that scale into production-grade detections-spanning machine learning classifiers to AI-informed automated rule generation.
Shape the Pipeline: Influence data pipeline strategies and model design by ensuring our datasets and automated logic accurately capture the ground truth of modern threat landscapes.

We are seeking an AI Security Researcher to join Dashs core research team. Youll investigate how AI agents - spanning coding agents, SaaS AI platforms, cloud, and endpoints - can be abused, and design detections that stop threats before they cause impact. Each platform is different, yet they share common risk patterns across prompts, tools, MCP servers, skills, hooks, identity, and data movement. Your mission is to master both: uncovering unique attack surfaces while building universal, session- and intent-aware defenses. This role combines deep platform research, responsible security testing, and close collaboration with engineering to translate findings into production runtime protection. You will help define the field of Agentic Security.

Responsibilities

Research agentic threats: Prompt injection, tool/plugin/MCP abuse, skill and hook misuse, rogue autonomy, identity misuse, data leakage, adversarial AI, and protocol exploitation across coding agents and enterprise AI platforms.

Develop runtime detections: Design detections for multiple environments (coding agents, SaaS AI, cloud, endpoints), leveraging platform hooks, APIs, telemetry, and native guardrails where available.

Analyze platform complexities: Deep-dive into architectures, permissions, workflows, and agent capabilities (MCP servers, Skills, plugins, extensions) while extracting cross-platform risk patterns.

Build scalable detection logic: Prototype and refine heuristics, signatures, and intent-aware detectors that hold up at enterprise scale with low friction for builders.

Investigate monitoring and enforcement boundaries: Push what platforms allow for visibility and control - hooks, plugins, configuration surfaces, inventory signals, and policy enforcement points.

Prototype PoCs: Validate attack paths end to end, then turn findings into production-ready signatures, heuristics, detectors, and runtime policies.

Collaborate with engineering: Embed research into Dashs detection pipelines, session-aware runtime protection, and policy/governance modules.

Stay ahead of the field: Track adversarial AI and agent security research, continuously evolving Dashs detection and enforcement coverage.