Senior Staff Software Development Engineer

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Staff Applied AI Engineer building secure, production-grade AI solutions for Zscaler’s cloud security platform. Advising business leaders, shaping roadmaps, and establishing scalable engineering standards.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with business leaders and product owners from discovery through delivery to map workflows, identify high-value AI opportunities, shape roadmaps, and advise on technical feasibility, cost, and risk
  • Design and ship secure, production-grade AI solutions across retrieval-augmented generation, structured data querying, unstructured data mining, and agentic workflows, integrating them with core systems of record
  • Establish monitoring and evaluation frameworks, implement least-privilege access, and manage ROI, cost attribution, and support plans for deployments
  • Expand reusable building blocks, reference architectures, skills, and engineering playbooks while mentoring team members

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 3 years working directly on AI and/or ML projects
  • Hands-on experience across modern AI architecture components, including retrieval methods, reusable skill development, agentic orchestration, Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration, and agent-to-agent (A2A) frameworks
  • Proven track record of direct collaboration with business stakeholders to run discovery, translate ambiguous needs into actionable plans, and communicate trade-offs, risk, cost, performance, and architecture
  • Demonstrated experience securing AI systems and underlying data, including least-privilege access controls and defending against prompt injection, data leakage, and non-compliant outputs
  • Strong engineering foundation proficiency in Python, with experience deploying AI at scale on major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), integrating across APIs, relational/vector databases, and enterprise systems, and monitoring production drift and failure modes
  • Familiarity with memory management and long-term context architectures for AI agents
  • Direct experience with graph-based knowledge systems
  • Experience building automated evaluation frameworks such as LLM-as-judge methodologies or regression testing at-scale for AI quality

Benefits:

  • Various health plans
  • Time off plans for vacation and sick time
  • Parental leave options
  • Retirement options
  • Education reimbursement
  • In-office perks