Senior ASIC Design Engineer (NetSec)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.
Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Who We Are

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 Description

Your Career

Join our ASIC team and help deliver the digital logic that powers our next-generation firewall platforms. You will own module design from specification through silicon bring-up, working with world-class verification and physical-design engineers to hit aggressive performance, power, and schedule goals.

Your Impact

• Write clear design and micro-architecture specifications.

• Design SystemVerilog RTL that meets area, performance, and power targets.

• Verify your blocks with simulation, emulation, formal methods, and silicon bring-up.

• Collaborate with verification engineers to debug complex scenarios, close coverage, and add design-for-debug features.

• Partner with physical-design teams: review synthesis/timing reports, rewrite RTL to close critical paths, and consult on floor-planning for congestion/routability.

• Innovate: pilot AI-driven design or verification flows that cut schedule risk.

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• BS in EE, CE, or CS (MSEE or equivalent military experience preferred).

• 10+ years' front-end ASIC design ownership, shipping 2+ chips to mass production.

• Solid experience with PCIe core integration and lab validation.

• Expert SystemVerilog RTL skills.

• Scripting proficiency (Python, C/C++, Perl, bash or tcsh).

• Demonstrated strength in:

  • Defining micro-architecture from high-level requirements.

  • Datapath design expertise for intricate synch/asynch digital logic.

  • Debugging across simulation, emulation, and silicon.

  • Analyzing timing, power, and area reports and driving fixes.

• Excellent leadership, collaboration, and written/verbal communication.

• Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Networking or cybersecurity domain knowledge.

• Experience with DDR5 memory, Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), or search-algorithm accelerators.

• Formal-verification ownership.

• Hands-on silicon validation and lab bring-up.

Additional Information

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 $166000/YR - $235000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.