Palo Alto Hardware Test Engineer 

United States, California 

108855206

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

• 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

• Participate in Board bring up and validation and creating hardware debug guides and provide debug support to CM

• Development of high stress testing platforms, demonstrate understanding of bandwidth loading, environmental and electrical factors on CPU based PCBA architectures

• Strong understanding of network protocols, eg switching and routing

• 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

• 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

• Excellent communication skills and able to work independently

Your Experience

• 6+ 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, etc.

• Experience developing with scripting and programming languages, e.g. Python, Tcl/Tk, C/C++, Javascript, Labview, Python etc

• Expertise with computer networks and protocols - TCP/IP switching and routing, GNU/Linux tools

• Experience with vendor management, performance management and resource planning

• Excellent troubleshooting skills

• Knowledge of RF/Wireless technologies and related test systems (desired)

• Experience with ICT and Boundary Scan test (desired)

• BS/MS in Electronics/Electrical Engineering

Compensation Disclosure

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 $109,000/yr to $177,000/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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