Principal Product Security Researcher Vulnerability Research jobs at Palo Alto

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

This role is required to be in office at either our Santa Clara, Reston, Plano or New York offices. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.

Your Career

This involves:

• Building bold, sharp positioning and driving Go-to-Market (GTM) programs to ensure the successful launch and adoption of our new TI services.

• Amplifying our elite threat intelligence research to establish Unit 42 as the ultimate thought leader in the industry.

Your Impact

• The work you do will directly reinforce Unit 42’s reputation and drive tangible business results across Palo Alto Networks. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Service Launch & GTM Leadership: Spearhead the launch of new Threat Intelligence services – planning the release, managing messaging, positioning, collateral development, and driving the product launch.

• Thought Leadership & Content: Build strong, sharp product marketing content, including blogs, reports, videos, and presentations, focused on the Unit 42 Threat Intelligence services and research.

  • Partner with our threat research team to communicate clear and powerful messages to establish and differentiate Unit 42 as the ultimate thought leader in the industry.

  • Work closely with other Unit 42 teams to contribute to annual research reports that generate awareness and thought leadership and drive conversations about the threat landscape.

• Market & Competitive Intelligence: Track the threat intelligence market and competitive landscape in collaboration with product, marketing, and sales leadership.

• Campaigns & Awareness Support: Launching campaigns & programs – creating content for digital media, websites, and customer presentations to create awareness, demand, and engagement.

• Sales Enablement & Portfolio Differentiation: Enabling sales teams to understand the value proposition and key differentiators—creating and delivering presentations at internal sales events on how Unit 42 differentiates the portfolio across all Palo Alto Networks offerings.

• Analyst Engagement: Leading the analyst engagements and presentations to drive awareness and get an outside-in perspective.

Your Experience

• 8+ years of product marketing experience , ideally with 5+ years in cybersecurity.

• Experience with developing and leading innovative GTM programs to drive customer adoption is strongly preferred.

• Deep understanding of the Threat Intelligence and security consulting markets.

• Comfortable with creating and delivering presentations in a range of environments, from industry conferences to customer briefings.

• Demonstrated record of working cross-functionally to drive sales, demand generation, and overall organization and business success.

• Strong written communication is necessary to develop extremely simple and clear messaging, collateral, tools and content for clients, partners & sales.

• Experience and innovative energy to champion successful market and competitive disruption initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree required. Technical degree or equivalent background or equivalent military experience is desirable.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $193,000 - $230,000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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

Your Career As a Principal Consultant for SOC Transformation & XSIAM Deployment, you will be a seasoned leader at the forefront of our most strategic customer engagements. You will leverage a rare blend of consultative presence, deep technical mastery, and executive influence to guide our customers through complex SOC transformations. Your primary role is to drive these large-scale programs, ensuring the successful execution of foundational elements like seamless log migration and the development of sophisticated detection strategies, to deliver measurable security outcomes in highly dynamic enterprise environments.

Your Impact

• Serve as the lead strategic advisor and subject matter expert for customers undertaking a full-scale SOC modernization with XSIAM
• Lead multi-national SOC transformation programs, consolidating fragmented detection and response processes into a unified, AI-driven platform
• Direct enterprise-scale XSIAM deployments, guiding customers from initial strategy to full operationalization
• Devise and oversee comprehensive log ingestion strategies to ensure high-quality data fuels the XSIAM platform
• Architect and implement sophisticated detection strategies and correlation rules to fortify customer defenses against advanced threats
• Fine-tune and optimize log sources and correlation rules to maximize system performance and detection efficacy
• Identify opportunities to enhance analyst alert handling and response through automation
• Transform ambiguity into structured action plans, driving accountability at every level of a customer engagement
• Build and mentor high-performing professional services teams that blend consulting, engineering, and change management expertise
• Partner with Product and R&D teams to incorporate field insights into roadmap priorities

Your Experience

• A proven track record in modernizing Security Operations Centers (SOCs) to achieve automation, AI-driven detection, and measurable improvements in MTTD/MTTR
• Exceptional executive presence, with strong verbal and written communication skills to engage with stakeholders from the SOC analyst to the CISO
• Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior security leaders, with the ability to diagnose challenges and deliver strategic recommendations
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in deploying and integrating SIEM/security analytics solutions within large enterprise environments
• 8+ years of experience with Security Operations Center (SOC) tooling, processes, and workflows
• Hands-on technical mastery across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, cloud security, and threat intelligence
• Ability to conceive, architect, and develop effective correlation and detection rules
• Familiarity with a range of SIEM technologies, such as Splunk and IBM QRadar, is a plus
• Strong expertise in Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Relevant bachelor's degree or industry-recognized qualifications (CISSP, GIAC, etc.), is a plus
• Must be able to travel up to 30%

As threats and technology evolve, we stay in step to accomplish our mission. You’ll be involved in implementing new products, transitioning from old products to new, and will fix integrations and critical issues as they are raised. But you won’t wait for them to be raised, you’ll seek them out, too. We fix and identify technical problems, with a pointed focus of providing the best customer support in the industry.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $163000/YR - $224500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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

Your Career

You will join a dynamic and fast-paced team of seasoned fellow engineers designing and developing multi-tiered applications in a rapidly growing company. As a Principal AI Engineer, you will leverage your extensive experience to act as the trailblazer, helping us build and innovate enterprise-grade full-stack systems with a specific focus on Generative AI transformation.

We are looking for a highly hands-on, extremely technical leader to architect the next generation of our internal and external business applications. You will move beyond traditional software engineering to design intelligent, agentic workflows that revolutionize our Go-To-Market (GTM) processes.

Your Impact

• Lead the architecture and implementation of a Proxy-First "AI Gateway" intermediary layer to ensure seamless LLM vendor independence.

• Design and build a unified API endpoint to abstract LLM complexities and provide centralized control for access and security.

• Implement comprehensive GenAI observability pipelines to track trace-level data, prompt inputs/outputs, and model latency.

• Create architecture to optimize performance and expense by intelligently routing simpler queries to cost-effective models.

• Integrate observability data into the development cycle to identify real-time bottlenecks, high-latency chains, and model drift.

• Institute and promote innovative thinking by incorporating Agentic AI, designing sophisticated Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) workflows.

• Apply GenAI to complex Go-To-Market (GTM) business logic, automating critical workflows like customer support and entitlement platforms.

• Pioneer "LLM as a Judge" testing methodologies to automate quality assurance of system outputs (correctness, tone, and helpfulness).

• Build robust guardrails to filter inputs and outputs, preventing PII exposure, offensive content, and prompt injection attacks.

• Develop detection mechanisms, including keyword filtering, behavioral analysis, and adversarial training, to protect model instructions from manipulation.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of overall IT system architecture, design, development, and deployment experience.

• Proven track record leading technical teams in Agile/Scrum environments for large-scale implementations with aggressive timelines.

• Experience partnering with business stakeholders to design workflows for Go-To-Market (GTM), sales, or support operations.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain complex AI concepts to senior leadership.

• Extensive knowledge in building modern applications using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Llama 3, GPT-4, and Anthropic.

• Deep experience building and maintaining highly observable GenAI systems, including proficiency with tracing and evaluation tools (e.g., LangSmith, Arize, HoneyHive, or custom OpenTelemetry).

• Deep experience with Multi-Agent systems, Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, and orchestration frameworks.

• Experience establishing "Golden Datasets" for ground truth testing and performing comparative analysis across different models.

• Expert-level proficiency in Python; familiarity with Java or Node.js for enterprise integration is a plus.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $167000 - $270500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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

Your Impact

• Own the entire product lifecycle, with proven experience taking an IT product from Zero to One.

• Define and champion the holistic vision, strategy, and roadmap for a suite of IT products for opportunity management, account planning, pipeline visibility, and seller coaching

• Enable sales leaders with powerful forecasting tools, scenario modeling, and performance dashboards that convert data into decisions.

• Build a cohesive and intelligent seller workspace that serves as a personalized cockpit, surfacing the right accounts, AI driven action plan, and insights at the right time.

• Identify, scope, and drive the embedding of AI solutions into the core sales journey to automate tasks, provide intelligent guidance, and optimize decision-making.

• Maintain a working knowledge of cutting-edge AI and Machine Learning technologies and their practical application in sales cycles

• Demonstrate exceptional strength in Stakeholder Management, effectively communicating product vision, trade-offs, and progress to executive leadership

• Provide strategic leadership and guidance to a team of Product Managers and Business Analysts, overseeing the definition of detailed product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria, fostering a culture of creativity, accountability, and collaboration.

• Work closely with Engineering, UX/UI, and QA teams in an Agile environment to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.

Your Experience

• 15+ years of experience in Enterprise IT with 5+ years of experience in sales domain

• Proven success building products from the ground up and scaling them across global sales teams.

• 5+ years of leadership experience, managing and mentoring senior-level product managers.

• Deep product expertise in CRM platforms and Forecasting platforms in B2B Sales.

• Fluency in modern UX principles — with a passion for designing clean, guided experiences that reduce cognitive load for sellers.

• Experience applying AI/ML to enhance sales intelligence, automate workflows, and personalize seller journeys.

• Exceptional storytelling and stakeholder influence skills — you know how to build alignment and drive urgency.

• Passion for measuring what matters — defining KPIs tied to seller adoption, velocity, and revenue outcomes.

• Preferred:

• Experience with specific AI applications in the B2B context, such as predictive next best action, intelligent content recommendation, sales forecasting, co-pilot interfaces or conversational AI for Sellers.

• Familiarity with cloud-based ML platforms

• Demonstrated ability to partner with geographically distributed teams and external vendors to deliver impactful and scalable solutions

• A proactive self-starter who excels in fast-paced, high-growth environments

• The ideal candidate will have experience leading large-scale transformations in seller enablement or digital sales productivity.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $169000 - $282500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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

Your Impact

• Architect Intelligent Platform : Own the strategy and delivery of a unified, AI-powered platform specializing in maximizing case deflection, optimizing intelligent case routing, and enabling seamless customer self-service.

• Ensure Market Leadership & ROI : Drive significant velocity and ensure our platform investments maintain a competitive edge, directly tying feature execution to measurable Return on Investment (ROI).

• AI-First Product Strategy & Roadmap : Define and champion the multi-year roadmap for IT CX products, prioritizing AI integration for predictive, proactive, and personalized support within the SFDC Service Cloud ecosystem.

• Product Ownership & AI Integration : Own the complete product lifecycle from ideation to delivery, managing product strategy, epics, and detailed user stories. Ensure AI is integrated where it drives the highest measurable value in workflows.

• KCS, Knowledge & Self-Service Strategy : Define the product vision for Knowledge-Centered Service (KCS) and customer self-service channels, leveraging AI to improve knowledge health and significantly increase case deflection rates.

• Cross-Functional Governance & Executive Communication : Act as the primary executive communication channel, establishing clear governance and decision-making processes to ensure product vision is aligned across business unit leaders, IT, and R&D.

• VoC, Analytics & Competitive Strategy : Utilize Voice of the Customer (VoC) and advanced analytics, alongside competitive analysis, to inform the product roadmap, prioritize permanent fixes, and develop data-driven business cases for platform investments.

• Cross-Functional AI Orchestration : Lead the effort to bridge business strategy, Data Science, and Engineering, ensuring seamless development and integration of AI models with core platforms (SFDC/Omnichannel).

• Define and Drive Success Metrics : Establish and monitor comprehensive KPIs for AI-powered features, including model performance, data quality, deflection rates, and overall product ROI.

Your Experience

• 12+ years of Product Management experience in technology or IT CX, with a demonstrated focus on building and launching AI-powered solutions.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business or a related field with a strong emphasis on AI/ML. MBA degree is a plus.

• Deep Platform Expertise: Proven ownership and management of Salesforce Service Cloud and Omnichannel solutions, specifically optimizing case deflection and customer self-service channels.

• Domain Expertise: Deep expertise in Customer Support, Success, and the operational models of KCS (Knowledge-Centered Service).

• Technical Acumen: Robust background with a deep understanding of cloud architectures and machine learning platforms.

• Leadership & Influence: Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex AI product visions and financial progress to executive audiences.

• Methodology: Expert proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading product planning in an AI development context.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $164000 - $266000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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

Your Career

Architect/Sr. Principal Engineer, Backend - Cortex Cloud (Posture Security)

Your Impact

• Lead the architectural vision and design for complex, large-scale backend systems and microservices that form the backbone of our Cortex Cloud Posture Security offerings.

• Develop and implement high-quality, resilient, and scalable backend services primarily using Go and Python.

• Drive system design discussions and decisions, ensuring solutions meet current Posture Security needs while being adaptable for future growth and technological advancements in cloud security.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, frontend engineers, security researchers, and SRE, to define, design, and ship new features and platform enhancements for Cortex Cloud Posture Security.

• Mentor and guide senior and junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, and continuous learning within the Posture Security team.

• Define and evangelize best practices for backend development, testing, and deployment within the organization, particularly as they apply to cloud-native security solutions.

• Analyze and resolve complex technical challenges and production issues, ensuring the reliability and performance of our Cortex Cloud Posture Security services.

• Contribute to and lead code reviews, design reviews, and architectural reviews related to Posture Security components.

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends in cloud security, backend development, and posture management, evaluating and recommending their adoption where appropriate.

• Optionally, leverage your understanding of UI development and user experience to contribute to a more holistic product design and improved collaboration with frontend teams working on the Cortex Cloud interface.

Your Experience

• 10+ years of experience in backend software development, with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex, distributed systems, preferably in a cloud security context.

• Deep expertise in Go and/or Python for backend development.

• Strong understanding of software architecture principles, including microservices, event-driven architecture, and distributed systems patterns.

• Proven experience with system design, data modeling, and API design (RESTful, gRPC).

• Experience with various database technologies (SQL and NoSQL), message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and caching solutions.

• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), with a strong emphasis on security best practices within these environments.

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical projects and mentor engineers.

• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.

• Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with a knack for explaining complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of UI technologies (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js) and how backend systems support frontend applications for displaying complex security data.

• Deep experience with cybersecurity, specifically Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP), or related cloud security domains.

• Contributions to open-source projects related to cloud security or backend infrastructure.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.

• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., CIS, NIST, SOC2) and their implications for cloud security products.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $225,000 - 250,000. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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

Your Career

As a Design Verification engineer on the ASIC team, you will ensure that the ASICs in our groundbreaking next-generation firewall products meet or exceed industry-leading requirements for features, performance, and reliability. You will define verification methodologies, architect test benches, write test plans, specify coverage, write tests, and debug. You will work on diverse platforms including simulation, emulation, formal verification, and silicon validation.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with engineers in software, architecture, design, and verification teams to create comprehensive pre-silicon verification plans across simulation, emulation, and formal verification
• Plan and execute every aspect of simulation test plans using sophisticated coverage-driven, constrained-random methodologies
• Develop flows, methodologies, and infrastructure for emulation - Create, run, and debug emulation tests in close collaboration with system architects, software engineers, and ASIC designers
• Define new tools and methodologies to continuously improve quality and velocity
• Create powerful programs in Python to automate triage, coverage closure, and metrics-driven verification

Your Experience

• BS in EE, CE, or CS required or equivalent military experience required - MSEE preferred
• Minimum 5 years experience in ASIC design verification
• Demonstrated success in taking multiple ASIC products from concept to mass production
• Expertise in SystemVerilog and UVM
• Technical strength in the following areas is required
  • Defining test plans, including comprehensive adversarial testing
  • Developing rich functional coverage models
  • Creating powerful and scalable test benches
  • Implementing sophisticated self-checking infrastructure with reference models and scoreboards
  • Developing reusable constrained-random tests
  • Debugging failures
  • Closing coverage
• Experience in the following areas is preferred
  • Networking and cyber security
  • Formal property verification
  • Silicon validation - bringup, test, debug, and regression
  • Creating models in Python and C/C++
  • Writing driver code in C
• Skilled in writing powerful, modular, and scalable programs in Python, Perl, and UNIX shell to automate verification tasks, especially regression testing
• Demonstrated ownership and independence in planning, debugging complex failures, closing metrics-driven tasks, driving vendors, and reporting status
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $235000 - $260000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.