Intern - Software Engineer

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.

Who We Are

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.

Job Summary

Your Career
We are looking for a brilliant Data Scientist that wants to make a career out of using machine learning to address security problems. Previous intern projects include building a novel ML algorithm in Hadoop, setting up a pipeline that classifies over 1M webpages a year, building a classifier to detect malicious Javascript pages (which eventually led to several patents), and upgrading production systems to use deep learning models instead of traditional ML models. A high percentage of data science interns join the Palo Alto Networks team full time.
Our Summer Internship Program from May-August or June-September provides you:
1:1 mentorship
Fun and engaging events that inspire your intellectual curiosity
The opportunity to expand your knowledge and work on challenging projects
Connections to other recent grads, and employees across the company as well as our leaders
Your Impact
Learn to apply Machine Learning in a production environment
Perform research related to security and malware
Work on distributed clusters with large amounts of data

Qualifications
Your Experience
Be an excellent programmer; experience with distributed cloud systems like GCS or AWS and containers like Docker a big plus
Have a strong working knowledge of machine learning algorithms that may include CNNs, LSTMs, XGBoost, Byte Pair Encoding schemes, etc.
Be comfortable working independently, be able to produce something impressive in one summer, have the ability to come up with novel solutions to difficult problems

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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Our Commitment

We're trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity's status quo. It's simple: we can't accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

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Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Is role eligible for Immigration Sponsorship? No. Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.