Senior Product Compliance Engineer

Company Description

Our Mission

At 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.

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is seeking a seasoned Product Compliance Engineer to join the Hardware development team. This highly experienced senior individual will work collaboratively across the company in providing expert level product compliance support for all of Palo Alto Networks platforms. Utilize your extensive industry experience in regulatory compliance, for safety, EMC, NEBS, and other product compliance areas to ensure our products meet all world-wide regulatory requirements.

Your Impact

• Collaborates closely with the product management team to ensure all world-wide country certifications and requirements are met and maintained to meet the company’s product target market objectives
• Develop a compliance test plan for new products to ensure product compliance requirements are met on a global scale
• Review circuit designs and hardware with EMC, safety, and NEBS compliance as one of the objectives
• Procure hardware, setup equipment and interface with software teams to configure equipment for compliance testing
• Conduct design verification testing on NPI and changes to legacy products 
• Interface with external test labs for quotation, scheduling and executing required product certification testing with report
• Work through appropriate agencies to ensure product certifications are issued, recorded, and kept current
• Ensure all product changes meet all original required product certifications - Define any required re-testing and/or re-certification based on product changes through to end-of-life
• Support requests from customers for evidentiary proof of product verification and certifications

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of product safety and regulatory requirements as they apply to networking equipment including FCC (Class A and Class B), CE, VCCI, product safety (UL, CSA, TUV), telecom homologation standards where applicable, telecom carrier requirements (NEBS, Verizon, AT&T), for both wired and wireless networking interfaces
• In depth experience and knowledge of major international telecommunications regulatory regulations and requirements and the methodology and strategies for obtaining world-wide certifications (BSMI, CCC, KCC, VCCI, Anatel, and other major countries in a cost-effective manner - Direct experience dealing with in-country representatives to obtain certifications
• Outstanding leadership and communication skills, both written and verbal, and a highly collaborative working style is necessary
• Project management pertaining to all aspects from funding, procuring hardware, setup and configuration, interfacing with labs and worldwide agencies, resolving issues and obtaining formal approvals to compliance standards
• Support Program Manager to address customer concerns on EMC related questions
• Support sustaining team when EMC technical issues arised
• Provide Electrical and Mechanical engineer first level debugging when an EMC issue arises and provide manufacturable solution suggestion with the team
• Demonstrated problem solving ability of complex issues, technically and operationally
• Experience in working with supply chain vendors to obtain regulatory approval documents of sub-systems
• Strong skills using mainstream PC tools and industry prevalent business tools (Arena, Oracle, SAP, Arena and others) to execute on business objectives
• Minimum BS or equivalent military experience required - Master degree is preferred
• 5+ years progressive and proven experience in leading/managing broad product compliance in the computer networking industry
• Experience in a functional management role, while not required, is a definite plus

Additional Information

The Team

Our engineering team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating — challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. Our engineers don’t shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our Commitment

We’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 $131,600/yr to $212,850/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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