Senior Staff Hardware Test Engineer

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
• Manage the development of test fixtures and hardware requirements
• Excellent understanding of electronics manufacturing and service requirements
• Improve CM performance through iterative yield analysis and isolation of key failure manufacturing defects
• Lead failure analysis, drive root cause activities and implement effective fixes across manufacturing and repair facilities of complex electronic components and PCBA
• Drive continuous process improvement strategies to optimize test yields and throughput
• Build and scale manufacturing/service test lines and ensure the smooth operation of the test lines in manufacturing and repair
• Participate in cross-functional project teams, collaborate with supply chain and HW/SW engineering
• Ability to travel domestically up to 10% of the time
• Excellent communication skills and able to work independently

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