This role pays more than
79%
of similar roles. Most pay
$162,000–$246,150
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$247k
versus about
$204k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Proofpoint
Proofpoint is a cybersecurity company specializing in email security, threat protection, data loss prevention, and compliance. Privately held by Thoma Bravo since 2021, it serves over 500,000 organizations including 87 of the Fortune 100.
Proofpoint currently has
15 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$136,200–$214,005
across 9 roles with salary data.
As a Senior Applied AI Engineer on the Applied AI Research team, you will own research initiatives from inception to completion by framing questions, building necessary systems, and providing evidence-based decisions for the company. You will develop self-improving systems, build evaluation platforms to measure agent behavior regarding quality, cost, and speed, and manage both hosted third-party model APIs and open-weight models on internal GPU fleets. Your daily work involves creating prototypes, advising teams on production deployment, and improving coding agent workflows. The role requires expertise in Python, ML fundamentals, Kubernetes inference platforms, Flyte for orchestration, LiteLLM, Langfuse, and tools like Claude Code or Cursor. You will solve complex problems regarding the reliability and cost-effectiveness of AI models within a cybersecurity context to determine which technologies are viable for production use.
Python
Generative AI
LLMs
LangChain
LangGraph
LangSmith
LlamaIndex
Hugging Face
Anthropic API
Vector Databases
Knowledge Graphs
Java
Spring AI
LangChain4j
Embabel
Distributed Systems