Distinguished Fpga Design Engineer (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.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

As a Distinguished FPGA Design Engineer, you will define complex and scalable FPGA subsystems for our groundbreaking next-generation firewall products.  You will provide the technical leadership to ensure that our cybersecurity FPGAs push the boundaries for features, performance, and reliability.  You will create architecture and microarchitecture specifications and validate them with modeling and simulation.  You will also implement designs and verify them on diverse platforms including simulation and system validation.

Your Impact

• Influence novel product initiatives with key insights about emerging and state-of-the-art FPGA and hardware system technologies
• Define the FPGA architecture and microarchitecture in close collaboration with a cross functional team of hardware engineers, software engineers, and product managers
• Validate complex FPGA architectures and microarchitectures with modeling and simulation
• Implement RTL designs in SystemVerilog
• Ensure that designs meet aggressive goals for functionality, performance, and reliability in close collaboration with FPGA verification and systems validation engineers
  • Evaluate and enhance test plans to maximize coverage
  • Debug complex test scenarios
• Ensure that designs meet aggressive goals for area, timing, power, and testability
  • Optimize architectures for power, performance, and FPGA resource utilization
  • Advise the design team in closing timing and reducing power
• Lead technical engagements with FPGA vendors
• Solve customer issues in collaboration with software and field support engineers
• Suggest and implement improvements to the development process
• Mentor and coach team members

Qualifications

Your Experience

• BS in EE, CE, or CS required or equivalent military experience required - MSEE preferred
• Minimum 10 years experience in FPGA design
• Demonstrated success in taking multiple FPGA-based systems from concept to mass production
• Deep knowledge of computer networking from layers 1 to 4
• Expertise in SystemVerilog for design
• Technical strength in the following areas is required
  • Defining optimal architecture and microarchitecture solutions
  • Debugging simulation and system validation tests
  • Analyzing FPGA place and route reports and fixing timing and power violations
• Experience in the following areas is preferred
  • Cybersecurity
  • Modeling with SystemC, C++, or Python
  • Defining powerful and scalable design for debug mechanisms
• Demonstrated ownership and independence in planning, debugging complex failures, closing metrics-driven tasks, driving vendors, and reporting status
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills
• Accomplished in writing technical documents and making compelling presentations

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 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 $200,600/yr to $324,500/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.