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
The evolving and transformative role IT can have in the industry in general and Palo Alto Networks in particular as we scale the company for multi-product security platform means new opportunities in the way we help transform the business, optimize IT and drive Enterprise AI transformation. We are looking to hire the leader for AI who will closely partner with the CIO on defining the IT Strategy and execution with focus on AI, Cloud, Data and Experience & Efficiency. To support our AI strategy across the enterprise business, this leader will bring expertise in machine learning experience, robust data analytics background, and solid software design and development skills who can utilize data-driven techniques in building AI solutions to help manage, scale, and optimize our IT and business operations. This role will collaborate with Business, IT Infra and Ops, and Applications, and Data and Analytics, InfoSec teams to ensure the enterprise AIML strategy and implementations add value to the business. The leader will partner closely with the CIO Leadership, Strategy and Product to ensure the above-mentioned outcomes are achieved
This role will report to the CIO.
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
Setting the strategy and execution plan for AI architecture to support the Business and IT strategies and maintaining the architectural principlesDesign efficient and scalable AI solutions using industry-leading ML models, such as Large Language Models, SaaS vendors, specialized models, etc. Design and implement AI solutions to solve IT operational challenges in an end-to-end fashion for enhanced employee experience and satisfactionCombine industry best practices and a first principles approach to design and build AI Solutions with the integrated thinking of data, AI models, process and UX engineeringContinuously make improvements based on analytics insights to optimize AI model efficiency and increase proactive and automated employee engagement experience across all business functionsCollaborate with members of IT teams, Product teams, and Business Teams to drive superior business outcomes
Qualifications
Your Experience
Master’s degree in Data Science/AIML, Computer science, or Statistics – Ph.D. a plus or equivalent military experience requiredMS + 12+ years of experience, or Ph.D. + 8+ years of experienceExperience in Large Language models, natural language processing (parsing, entity recognition and detection, text classification, etc.), language modeling, and data mining and statisticsKnowledge of Core AI Techniques and AlgorithmsStrategic Thinking – Ability to articulate strategically about how AI can be used to drive business value – This requires an understanding of the business and its goals, as well as the ability to identify and prioritize AI use cases that align with those goalsProven experience leading and inspiring a high-performing team to support growth objectivesDemonstrated ability of building quick alignment, driving to decisions, influencing without positional power, and collaborating to producing improved outcomesHave a startup personality that is hands on, driven, strategic, accountable, ethical, collaborative, hard-working, and productiveExcellent communication, written documentation and oral presentation, and interpersonal skills for building relationships with various levels of an organizationExperience in complex enterprises with growing responsibilities highly preferred
Additional Information
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.
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 $204,000/yr to $330,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.