Senior Silicon Validation Engineer

Your Career

As a Silicon Validation Engineer on the ASIC team, you will ensure that the ASICs in our groundbreaking next-generation firewall products meet or exceed industry-leading requirements for features, performance, and reliability.  You will define silicon validation methodologies, develop infrastructure, write test plans, execute tests, and debug.  You will validate networking ASIC functionality for packet processing, switching, routing, cryptography, and high-speed interfaces.

Your Impact

• Create comprehensive silicon validation plans in collaboration with ASIC, system hardware, and software engineers
• Develop silicon validation methodologies and infrastructure using lab equipment, third-party applications, and proprietary software-driven platforms
• Execute every aspect of silicon validation test plans
• Debug cross-functional issues with ASIC, system hardware, and software engineers to validate the correctness of the ASICs
• Build powerful programs in Python and C to automate testing, regression, and debugging

Your Experience 

• BS or MS in EE, CE, or CS or equivalent experience or equivalent military experience 
• 5+ years of relevant silicon validation experience
• Proven success in taking ASICs to mass production
• Proficiency with lab equipment, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes
• Background in validating one or more of the following high-speed interfaces - Ethernet, PCIE, DDR, HBM
• Expertise in Python and C
• Familiarity with SystemVerilog and ASIC verification tools (e.g. VCS, Verdi)
• Experience with networking and cybersecurity is preferred
• Demonstrated ownership and independence in planning, analyzing, debugging, driving vendors, and reporting status
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills

The Team

We are the global cybersecurity leader, known for always challenging the security status quo. Our mission is to protect our way of life in the digital age by preventing successful cyberattacks. This has given us the privilege of safely enabling tens of thousands of organizations and their customers. Our pioneering Security Operating Platform emboldens their digital transformation with continuous innovation that seizes the latest breakthroughs in security, automation, and analytics. By delivering a true platform and empowering a growing ecosystem of change-makers like us, we provide highly effective and innovative cybersecurity across clouds, networks, and mobile devices.

Our Security Operating Platform is built for automation. It is easy to operate, with capabilities that work together, so customers can prevent successful cyberattacks. They can use analytics to automate routine tasks, so they can focus on what matters. We are known for continuously delivering innovations; and with Application Framework, we extend that to an open ecosystem of developers that benefit from our customers’ existing investment in data, sensors, and enforcement points.

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/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $120000 - $193500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

We’re problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at  [email protected].

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.