Senior Staff Hardware Test Engineer
Senior Hardware Test Engineer building advanced test platforms and strategies for network firewall manufacturing at Palo Alto Networks, collaborating with contract manufacturers and cross-functional teams on PCBA and system-level testing.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Santa Clara, United States of America
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Qa
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of electronics manufacturing testing experience
- PCBA Design Life Cycle from Design Review to Manufacturing
- Common lab equipment (DMM, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, TDR)
- PCBA EDA Tools (OrCAD, KiCAD, Allegro, Altium Designer)
- Interfaces: I2C, SPI, SMBUS, PCIe, USB, Memory Controller
- Linux environment and test station network configuration
- Vendor management, performance management and resource planning
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
Nice to have
- ICT and Boundary Scan test experience
- BS/MS in Electronics/Electrical Engineering
- Jira for bug tracking and documentation
- Scripting/programming languages (e.g. Python)
- RF/Wireless technologies and related test systems
Full description
Our Mission
At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission—to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.
Who We Are
In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!
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 SummaryYour 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/Role
- 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 for PCBA and System level
- Drive DfT (Design for Testability) and functional test coverage analyses from early Prototype design stages with HW/SW design engineering
- Participate in Board bring up and validation and creating hardware debug guides and provide debug support to CM from NPI and through Production
- Development of high stress testing platforms, demonstrate understanding of bandwidth loading, environmental and electrical factors on CPU based PCBA architectures