Palo Alto Sr Engineer HW/SW System Architecture 

United States, California 

87979188

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

Your Impact

You will work on cutting edge system architectures for next generation firewall products, identify performance bottlenecks and solutions, design and model protocol and sub-component offload solutions.In addition to high level design work, you will also do hands-on coding, including:

• Prototyping and modeling of new architectures and designs

• Architectural models, test infrastructure, pre- and post-silicon validation

• In-house Processor Tool Chain Development - Assembler, Debugger, Simulator

• Infrastructure to support ASIC team development and verification

• ASIC microcode and device driver development

Your Experience

Be part of System Architecture team defining the architecture of next generation ASICs, FPGAs and systems. The ideal candidate would have a background in embedded networking, forwarding or platform software.
Bring your expertise with various aspects of system software design, networking protocols, multi-processor systems, and hardware offloading.

• In-depth knowledge of networking equipment & architectures – system hardware, CPUs, ASIC etc.
• Experienced in networking protocols – mobile, routing, transport layer, SSL/TLS, etc.
• Experienced in Software and Hardware co-design and understanding HW offload including system modeling for feasibility and tradeoffs
• Experience with designing system software for enterprise networking equipment
• Strong coding skills including C/C++, Bash, Python, etc.
• Familiarity with containerized development and docker and Linux/Kernel drivers
• Experience with network security desired
• Familiarity with x86, MIPS and ARM architectures, and interface standards such as PCIe
• Experience with IPC mechanisms and multi-CPU architectures
• New hardware bring-up experience desired
• Minimum 10 years of related experience required

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 $193000/YR - $245500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.