Senior Continuous AI Pentester

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values:
Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

We believe collaboration thrives in person. That’s why most of our teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when it’s needed. This model supports real-time problem-solving, stronger relationships, and the kind of precision that drives great outcomes.

• Own the tooling to continuously scan Palo Alto Networks’ extensive public-facing attack surface within the Information Security team.
• Design and develop black-box scanning capabilities that discover and validate vulnerabilities across web applications, APIs, cloud services, and internet-facing infrastructure.
• Build AI agents that use security tools, analyze target context, and adapt testing approaches.
• Take capabilities from prototype to production, developing in-house tools or evaluating, acquiring, and operating commercial solutions as needed.

• Perform hands‑on security testing to understand vulnerabilities and translate effective techniques into reusable tools and automated workflows.
• Combine established security tools with custom detection logic to investigate application weaknesses, misconfigurations, and attack paths.
• Develop validation workflows that reduce false positives and produce reproducible evidence.

• Build and improve services for scan scheduling, tool execution, and results processing at enterprise scale.
• Apply expertise in frontier AI models to select and evaluate models that balance capability, accuracy, performance, and cost.
• Evaluate detection accuracy, coverage, and agent performance to improve scanning effectiveness.
• Implement controls for authorized scope and safe execution, while improving reliability and cost efficiency.

• Produce actionable findings with clear evidence, affected assets, and remediation guidance.
• Integrate findings into internal security and engineering workflows, including automated retesting to verify fixes.
• Partner with security researchers, analysts, and engineering teams to prioritize capabilities based on emerging threats and enterprise security needs.

• 5-7+ years of Security Engineering experience:
  Pentesting, Offensive Security, Product Security, or Application Security
• Strong experience with Penetration testing
• Experience building tools such as custom scanners, testing frameworks, automation, or meaningful open-source contributions
• Strong web/API testing skills plus experience building security services or developer tooling
• Software engineering experience building vulnerability scanners, DAST, ASM, or automated pentesting products and understand how vulnerabilities work.

We’re not your ordinary Information Security team. We’re a diverse group of security professionals who challenge the…