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.

Your Career

As a Senior Manager for ASIC Design Verification, you will lead a world-class team of engineers to ensure that the ASICs in our groundbreaking next-generation firewall products meet or exceed industry-leading requirements for features, performance, and reliability. You will advise on product definition, architecture, and design. You will lead in the pre-silicon verification and post-silicon validation phases of the product development cycle. This includes test planning, testbench development, creating tests, running simulations, debugging, and closing coverage.

Your Impact

• Build a diverse, high-performing team by fostering an environment of disruption, collaboration, and inclusion
• Drive a results-oriented culture with a strong focus on quality, velocity, simplicity, and satisfaction
• Collaborate with leaders in product management, architecture, and design to define ASICs optimized across features, performance, cost, and time-to-market
• Lead cross-functional teams to complete all aspects of pre-silicon verification (simulation, emulation, formal) in a timely manner with first-silicon success
• Work closely with stakeholders in hardware engineering and software QA to lead post-silicon validation initiatives that bring the overall system to market on time and with high quality of results
• Lead critical engagements with EDA vendors
• Drive continuous improvements to tools, flows, and methodologies that enhance engineering productivity
• Be a strong mentor and coach to the team

Your Experience

• BS in EE, CE, or CS required - MSEE preferred or equivalent military experience required
• 12+ years of experience in highly technical roles in ASIC verification at large organizations or innovative startups
• Demonstrated success in taking multiple ASICs from concept to mass production
• Strong domain expertise in all aspects of pre-silicon verification
• Experience leading post-silicon validation initiatives
• Good understanding of computer networking from layers 1 to 4
• Required strengths -
  • SystemVerilog, UVM, and functional coverage
  • Writing powerful, modular, and scalable programs in Python and UNIX shell to automate verification tasks
  • Project management fundamentals - Building schedules, optimizing critical paths, and managing resource allocation
  • Deploying metric driven verification flows - planning, execution, measurement, and response
• Preferred experience -
  • Emulation
  • Formal verification
  • Defining unit-level testing frameworks
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills
• Accomplished in writing technical documents and making compelling presentations

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.

Our Commitment

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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com.

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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 $159,800/yr to $258,500/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.