Sr Principal ASIC Design Verification Engineer

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.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. 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.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

As a Design Verification 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 verification methodologies, architect test benches, write test plans, specify coverage, write tests, and debug.  You will work on diverse platforms including simulation, emulation, formal verification, and silicon validation.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with engineers in software, architecture, design, and verification teams to create comprehensive pre-silicon verification plans across simulation, emulation, and formal verification
• Plan and execute every aspect of simulation test plans using sophisticated coverage-driven, constrained-random methodologies
• Develop flows, methodologies, and infrastructure for emulation - Create, run, and debug emulation tests in close collaboration with system architects, software engineers, and ASIC designers
• Define new tools and methodologies to continuously improve quality and velocity
• Create powerful programs in Python to automate triage, coverage closure, and metrics-driven verification

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS in EE, CE, or CS required or equivalent military experience required - MSEE preferred
• Minimum 5 years experience in ASIC design verification
• Demonstrated success in taking multiple ASIC products from concept to mass production
• Expertise in SystemVerilog and UVM
• Technical strength in the following areas is required
  • Defining test plans, including comprehensive adversarial testing
  • Developing rich functional coverage models
  • Creating powerful and scalable test benches
  • Implementing sophisticated self-checking infrastructure with reference models and scoreboards
  • Developing reusable constrained-random tests
  • Debugging failures
  • Closing coverage
• Experience in the following areas is preferred
  • Networking and cyber security
  • Formal property verification
  • Silicon validation - bringup, test, debug, and regression
  • Creating models in Python and C/C++
  • Writing driver code in C
• Skilled in writing powerful, modular, and scalable programs in Python, Perl, and UNIX shell to automate verification tasks, especially regression testing
• Demonstrated ownership and independence in planning, debugging complex failures, closing metrics-driven tasks, driving vendors, and reporting status
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s

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

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