Distinguished ASIC Design Engineer

Our MissionAt 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 CareerAs a Distinguished ASIC Design Engineer, you will define complex and scalable ASIC subsystems for our groundbreaking next-generation firewall products. You will provide the technical leadership to ensure that our cybersecurity ASICs 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, emulation, and silicon validation.Your Impact

Influence novel product initiatives with key insights about emerging and state-of-the-art ASIC and hardware system technologies

Define the ASIC architecture and microarchitecture in close collaboration with the System Architecture team.

Validate complex ASIC 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 ASIC 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 in close collaboration with ASIC physical design engineers

Optimize architectures for power, performance, and area

Guide floorplanning choices at the block, subsystem, and chip levels

Advise the design team in closing timing and reducing power

Suggest and implement improvements to the development process

Mentor and coach team members

Your Experience

BS in EE, CE, or CS required - MSEE preferred or equivalent military experience required

Minimum 10 years experience in ASIC design

Demonstrated success in taking multiple ASIC products 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

Modeling with SystemC, C, or Python

Debugging simulation, emulation, and silicon validation tests

Analyzing physical design reports and fixing timing and power violations

Experience in the following areas is preferred

Cybersecurity

Network simulation with Omnet, ns-3, or equivalent

Formal property verification

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

The TeamWe 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 CommitmentWe’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 $193,800/yr to $313,500/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here .