Principal Machine Learning Engineer (AI-ML Data Scientist - ADEM)

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a Sr. Staff AI-ML Data Scientist to lead the technical design of their next-generation AIOps platform. This role involves bridging AI research with backend software engineering to create autonomous, self-healing capabilities from system telemetry. You will build and integrate ML/LLM/GenAI models, design reasoning pipelines, and drive end-to-end solution development.

• Lead design and implementation of ML/LLM/GenAI-powered agents
• Build advanced reasoning pipelines, retrieval systems (RAG), and knowledge graph integrations
• Build, fine-tune, or adapt LLMs, multimodal models, and specialized agent models
• Drive end-to-end solution development from prototype to production
• Establish best practices for prompt design, agent memory management, and tool usage
• Evaluate emerging agent frameworks and generative AI technologies