Senior Staff Engineer Test, Hardware

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 take our mission of protecting the digital way of life seriously. We are relentless in protecting our customers and we believe that the unique ideas of every member of our team contributes to our collective success. Our values were crowdsourced by employees and are brought to life through each of us everyday - from disruptive innovation and collaboration, to execution. From showing up for each other with integrity to creating an environment where we all feel included.

As a member of our team, you will be shaping the future of cybersecurity. We work fast, value ongoing learning, and we respect each employee as a unique individual. Knowing we all have different needs, our development and personal wellbeing programs are designed to give you choice in how you are supported. This includes our FLEXBenefits wellbeing spending account with over 1,000 eligible items selected by employees, our mental and financial health resources, and our personalized learning opportunities - just to name a few!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work full time from our office with flexibility offered where needed. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. Our goal is to create an environment where we all win with precision.

Job Description

Your Career

At Palo Alto Networks, we build the world’s most advanced cybersecurity platforms. The Technical Operations team is responsible for the manufacturing capabilities to build our next-generation network firewalls. As a senior test engineer, you will be responsible for building advanced test platforms for network device manufacturing and implementation of test strategies in collaboration with our contract manufacturers and vendors, and work internally across different functional groups, from Supply Chain Operations to Product Development. You are a technical leader in your field, with a deep understanding of underlying architectures of network devices. 

Your Impact

• Responsible for ensuring our products ship with the highest quality through extensive and complete testing

• Evaluate and contribute to product designs for test coverage and serviceability by participating in PRD, System Design, Diagnostic, Schematic and Layout Reviews

• Design, develop and implement test strategies for new products, covering structural and functional testing

• Development of high stress testing platforms, demonstrate understanding of bandwidth loading, environmental and electrical factors

• Strong understanding of network protocols, eg switching and routing

• Manage the development of test fixtures and hardware requirements

• Excellent understanding of electronics manufacturing and service requirements

• Improve CM performance through iterative yield analysis and isolation of key failure manufacturing defects 

• Lead failure analysis, drive root cause activities and implement effective fixes across manufacturing and repair facilities 

• Drive continuous process improvement strategies to optimize test yields and throughput

• Build and scale manufacturing/service test lines and ensure the smooth operation of the test lines in manufacturing and repair 

• Oversee, design, develop and implement ICT and boundary scan requirements for early test deployment in collaboration with Flex ICT teams for NPI programs

• Evaluate product designs for test coverage and serviceability with ICT and boundary scan

• Oversee and manage production or service for test engineering requirements

• Participate in cross-functional project teams, collaborate with supply chain and HW/SW engineering  

• Excellent communication skills and able to work independently

Qualifications

Your Experience 

• 8+ years of electronics manufacturing testing experience

• Experience with electronics system design and DfT

• Experience using common lab equipment such as DMM, Scopes, Logic Analyzers, etc.

• Experience developing with scripting and programming languages, e.g. Python, Tcl/Tk, C/C++, Javas