Job brief: Senior Staff AI Engineer

What JoRoute checked · Checked by JoRoute

• Listed on Zscaler's own job board. JoRoute does not take listings from job ads or recruiters.
• First seen by JoRoute 2026-11-12 (today); last confirmed on the board 2026-11-12.
• The apply link opens job-boards.greenhouse.io, the address Zscaler's board gives for this job.
• No other listing with this title and place on this board in the last 90 days.
• No layoff notices (WARN) under this name in the state files JoRoute reads.

What the listing says · Employer's own words, not checked

• Pay: $180,000 to $225,000 a year
• Job type: Not stated
• Where: Remote · Santa Clara, California, USA · Remote - USA
• Posted: 2026-11-11

What the job asks · Employer's own words, not checked

Level: Lead / staff. The title says "Staff".

Must have

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience guiding distributed engineering teams and external contractors across multiple time zones
• The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations and could be higher or lower based o…

Conditions

• We are looking for a Senior Staff AI Engineer to join our Information Technology Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Engineering team, reporting directly to the Senior Ma…
• Proven background operating production enterprise services, including incident response, on-call management, runbook development, and SLA governance
• In-office perks, and more!
• Learn more about Zscaler's hybrid working model and benefits here .

Main duties

• Architect and scale enterprise AI platform capabilities, including model gateways, intelligent routing, cost governance, LLM observability, evaluation pipeli…
• Direct technical execution for AI solutions and support, spearheading enterprise AI platform administration, intelligent search experiences, and scalable L2 …
• Lead distributed engineering teams across the US and India, aligning roadmap priorities, conducting technical reviews, and fostering seamless communication a…
• Establish engineering excellence and production AI quality gates, overseeing hands-on code development, CI/CD pipelines, regression suites, and latency and c…
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders in Security, Legal, Privacy, and enterprise business units to ensure compliant, secure, and impactful AI enablement

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How it compares · Compared by JoRoute from listings

• Typical listed pay for engineer jobs in Santa Clara, CA: $206k a year (41 listings, 2 employers). This listing pays about the same.
• Across Zscaler's 164 open listings, 34% of those with a posting date were first posted more than 60 days ago. How Zscaler hires

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