Sr. Principal AI Researcher, AI Transformation

Shape the future of AI-powered software engineering at Palo Alto Networks. 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 at Palo Alto Networks 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.