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# Senior Applied AI Engineer at Proofpoint

Compensation · Listed in posting

$200,300 – $293,810/yr

**Setup**
: Remote

**Location**
: Colorado

**Type**
: Full-time

**Level**
: senior

**Posted**
: Oct 1, 2026

## Description

Proofpoint is hiring a Senior Applied AI Engineer to own applied AI research from problem framing through experimentation, evaluation, and production deployment. The role focuses on agentic systems, AI evaluation, hosted and self-hosted models, coding agents, and production monitoring, while also mentoring engineers and helping the team improve its research practices. Candidates need a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in computer science or a related field, at least five years of software and machine learning systems experience, recent LLM work beyond the prototype stage, research experience, and expertise in AI evaluation and related tooling.

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