Sr Staff AI Software Engineer (CORA AI)

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to 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 you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re 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. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

Job Summary

Your Career:

Idira is looking for a Senior AI Software Engineer to join our Generative AI foundation team. We build AI agents and shared infrastructure that power GenAI capabilities across the company, enabling CyberArk’s product lines to adopt agentic workflows safely, reliably, and at scale. In this role, you’ll be involved in the full software lifecycle - from fast-moving prototypes and POCs to production-grade, observable systems. You’ll collaborate with product managers, researchers, and engineers to translate ideas into robust services, bringing a pragmatic mindset to experimentation, iteration, and operational excellence. You’ll work hands-on with leading LLMs and the modern agentic ecosystem, leveraging a wide range of AWS services. You’ll use cutting-edge frameworks and techniques to develop, evaluate, and continuously improve our solutions through solid design, flexible implementation, strong telemetry and evaluation, and production feedback loops.

Your Impact

Design, develop, and deploy scalable AI agents and shared infrastructure for GenAI capabilities.

• Manage the full software development lifecycle, from prototyping to production-grade, observable systems.
• Collaborate with product managers, researchers, and engineers to translate ideas into robust and scalable services.
• Work hands-on with large language models (LLMs), agentic frameworks, and a broad range of AWS services.
• Implement strong telemetry, evaluation metrics, and feedback loops to continuously improve AI solutions.
• Champion operational excellence through pragmatic experimentation, iteration, and solid design.
  
  

Qualifications

Your Experience:

• Bachelor's degree with 15 years of experience, or Master's degree with 12 years of experience, or PhD with 8 years of experience.
• Extensive experience in software engineering, with a focus on building and deploying production-grade systems.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS services.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python.
• Hands-on experience with machine learning, deep learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle (design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance).
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building agentic AI systems or multi-agent workflows.
• Contributions to open-source projects in the AI/ML space.
• Experience with MLOps principles and tools for model deployment and monitoring.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity concepts and secure software development practices.
• Published research in relevant AI/ML fields.
  
  

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.

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 [email protected].

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.