Sr. Manager (AI/ML)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Job Description

Your Career

You will have the opportunity to build a career solving network security challenges leveraging advanced machine learning techniques on exabytes of data. You will help create and deliver the most advanced AI and Machine Learning enabled solutions to detect and remediate network issues, discover threats, provide intelligence and protect devices.

At Palo Alto Networks, Sr. Manager of Engineering are

• Deep technical experts and thought leaders that help accelerate adoption of the very best engineering practices, while maintaining knowledge on industry innovations, trends and practices
• Visionaries who deliver on critical business needs and are recognized across the company as go-to engineering resources on given domains
• Role models and mentors who exemplify the best of Palo alto Networks culture. They do the right thing even when it’s hard, treat challenges as a chance to learn and provide honest opinions so the team can improve
• Leaders who can communicate cogently with hands-on engineers as well as executives

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

• You will work in a fast paced team to create and deliver new product and mission features to the network and security platform that many customers use on a daily basis
• You will actively engage and contribute to the network security community through collaborations
• You will be part of the team that is leading and driving industry technology evolution in and creating a positive impact on business
• Design and development of workflow frameworks using AI/ML, with result collection and visualization, monitoring tools
• Creation and delivery of training materials

Qualifications

Your Experience

• M.S. or Ph.D degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related field or equivalent military experience required
• 8+ years industry experience in Machine Learning techniques and data analytics
• 8+ experience in design, algorithms and data structures - Expertise with one or more of the following languages is must - Java, Python, Golang
• Proven leadership skills with an ability to deliver under tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to collaborate with many cross-functional teams including Product Management and Design teams with an emphasis on end-to-end delivery
• Proven track record in solving difficult real world problems by applying Machine Learning techniques
• Experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch and TensorFlow, NLP, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Langchain, Transformer models or related areas is a big plus
• Experience with LLaMA is a big plus
• Thorough understanding of ML Ops best practices, ability to design, test, measure algorithms/models and orchestrate - Experience working with Google Vertex AI platform will be a plus
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• A self driven individual contributor and an excellent team player

Additional Information

The Team

We are on a mission to build the industry's best Security large language model.

Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating