Senior Hardware Test Engineer: PCB & System Validation

Palo Alto Networks; California (MO); On-site; USD 109,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a senior test engineer for its Technical Operations team. You will build advanced test platforms for network device manufacturing, drive test strategies, and collaborate with contract manufacturers and internal teams to ensure top-quality products.

You are a technical leader with deep knowledge of PCBA and system-level testing, DfT, lab equipment, and Linux environments, enabling robust validation across the device lifecycle and continuous improvement in

Qualifications

• 8+ 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 vendor management, performance management and resource planning
• Excellent troubleshooting skills

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Excellent troubleshooting skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to travel domestically up to 1

Independent work style

Education

BS/MS in Electronics/Electrical Engineering

Tools

DMM

Oscilloscopes

Logic Analyzers

TDR

OrCAD

KiCAD

Allegro

Altium Designer

Job description

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a senior test engineer for its Technical Operations team. You will build advanced test platforms for network device manufacturing, drive test strategies, and collaborate with contract manufacturers and internal teams to ensure top-quality products.

You are a technical leader with deep knowledge of PCBA and system-level testing, DfT, lab equipment, and Linux environments, enabling robust validation across the device lifecycle and continuous improvement in