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Principal Test Engineer - Hardware

Palo Alto Networks

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Jul 4, 2025
Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Palo Alto Networks is looking for a Senior Test Engineer to join their Technical Operations team to build advanced test platforms for network device manufacturing and implement test strategies to ensure the highest quality of their next-generation network firewalls.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of electronics manufacturing testing experience
  • Experience with PCBA Design Life Cycle from Design Review to Manufacturing
  • Experience using common lab equipment such as DMM, Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, TDR, etc.
  • Experience with PCBA EDA Tools such as OrCAD, KiCAD, Allegro, Altium Designer, etc.
  • Familiar with interfaces like I2C, SPI, SMBUS, PCIe, USB, Memory Controller, etc.
  • Experience working in a Linux environment and ability to set up test stations with network configurations.
  • Experience with any scripting and programming languages, Python etc. (desired)

Responsibilities

  • 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
  • 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

Other

  • Ability to travel domestically up to 10% of the time
  • Excellent communication skills and able to work independently
  • BS/MS in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent military experience required