Sr. Staff Software Development Engineer
$180,000–$225,000San Jose, CA · US remoteRemoteStaff
View posting at ZscalerAbout the job
Staff-level Applied AI Engineer embedded in Zscaler’s IT/Data Strategy team, partnering with business leaders to turn ambiguous, high-stakes opportunities into secure, production-grade AI systems.
Summary written from the posting.
What you’ll do
- Partner with business leaders to discover AI opportunities and shape roadmaps
- Design and ship secure AI solutions across RAG, data querying, mining, and agentic workflows
- Establish monitoring, evaluation, access-control, ROI, and support practices for deployments
- Expand reusable architectures, engineering standards, and playbooks while mentoring engineers
What you’ll bring
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years on AI or ML projects
- Hands-on experience with retrieval, agentic orchestration, MCP, and A2A frameworks
- Experience translating ambiguous stakeholder needs into actionable plans and communicating technical trade-offs
- Experience securing AI systems against prompt injection, data leakage, and non-compliant outputs
Technologies
Python · AWS · GCP · Azure · Model Context Protocol (MCP) · agent-to-agent (A2A) frameworks · retrieval-augmented generation · relational/vector databases · LLM-as-judge
About Zscaler
Cloud-native Zero Trust Exchange secures enterprise users, workloads, devices, AI apps, and data by replacing VPN/firewall architectures with inline cloud security.
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