Principal ASIC Design 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 engineer on the ASIC team, you will create complex digital logic for our groundbreaking next-generation firewall products that meet or exceed industry-leading requirements for features, performance, and reliability.  You will define architecture and microarchitecture specifications, implement logic, and validate the designs on diverse platforms including simulation, emulation, formal verification, and silicon validation.

Your Impact

• Create design specifications and define the ASIC architecture and microarchitecture in close collaboration with the Systems Architecture team
• Implement RTL designs in SystemVerilog
• Ensure that designs meet aggressive goals for functionality, performance, and reliability in close collaboration with ASIC verification and systems validation engineers
  • Evaluate and enhance test plans to maximize coverage
  • Create, run, and debug directed tests
  • Debug complex test scenarios
  • Analyze coverage reports and suggest new tests to close coverage gaps
  • Define and implement sophisticated design for debug mechanisms
• Ensure that designs meet aggressive goals for area, timing, power, and testability in close collaboration with ASIC physical design engineers
  • Perform synthesis
  • Optimize layout
  • Analyze and reduce power consumption
  • Close timing
• Define new methodologies to continuously improve quality and velocity
• Create powerful scripts to automate design tasks

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS in EE, CE, or CS required - MSEE preferred or equivalent military experience required
• Minimum 8 years experience in ASIC design
• Demonstrated success in taking multiple ASIC products from concept to mass production
• Expertise in SystemVerilog for design
• Technical strength in the following areas is required
  • Defining microarchitecture to optimize power, performance, and area
  • Lint, CDC, RDC, and X verification
  • Debugging simulation, emulation, and silicon validation
  • Analyzing physical design reports and fixing timing and power violations
  • Analyzing code coverage results
• 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++
  • Synthesis, equivalency check, and automatic formal verification
• Skilled in writing powerful, modular, and scalable scripts in Python and UNIX shell to automate design tasks
• 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

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 cu