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From the employer's careers site First seen 12 Nov 2026

Senior Staff AI Engineer

Zscaler Santa Clara, California Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$180,000-$225,000 USD per year

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Description

Zscaler is seeking a Senior Staff AI Engineer to join their Information Technology Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Engineering team. The successful candidate will serve as a technical lead across two high-impact organizations, defining architectural vision, establishing core enterprise infrastructure, and driving production-grade AI applications and operational workflows.

Responsibilities:

  • Architect and scale enterprise AI platform capabilities
  • Direct technical execution for AI solutions and support
  • Lead distributed engineering teams across the US and India
  • Establish engineering excellence and production AI quality gates
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure compliant and secure AI enablement

Requirements:

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • 3+ years of technical leadership experience
  • Proficiency in full-stack development using Python, TypeScript/Node.js, and modern front-end frameworks
  • Hands-on expertise in cloud and containerized infrastructure
  • Proven background operating production enterprise services

Preferred qualifications:

  • Advanced expertise administering enterprise AI platforms
  • Experience architecting vector and graph database solutions
  • Proven success deploying intelligent conversational bots and search experiences

The base salary range for this position is $180,000-$225,000 USD.

Benefits include various health plans, time off plans, parental leave options, retirement options, education reimbursement, and in-office perks.

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Skills

Nice to have

  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Google Vertex AI
  • vector database solutions
  • graph database solutions

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