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Plano, TX

Systems Engineer Academy

Graduate Program
Technology & Digital
Software engineering
Posted:
December 29, 2025

Palo Alto Networks

Enterprise cybersecurity platform solutions
80.6
Palpable Score
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Your Career

As an Associate Systems Engineer, you will join a cohort of recent college graduates for an immersion into Palo Alto Networks platform, automation, and cybersecurity across network, endpoint, and cloud. This program includes up to 24 months of formal technical instruction with hands-on labs, both group and individual projects, technical study, and professional skills development.  As you advance through the program, you will be placed with various sales engineering teams to learn how to support customers during the pre-sales process.  

While ramping on the Academy development track you will work alongside other SE teams to learn and support the other critical work with customers within the presales process. As part of your development, you will work as a technical advisor in tandem with our sales and channel partners on customer engagements, establishing relationships with customers with the goal of helping them ensure each day is more secure than the one before.

Upon completion of the program, you will have gained proven technical and professional skills, shown qualification across multiple certifications, and rotations with senior SEs to take on a field SE position in any number of cities across the US based on business needs. Our SEs are among the best in the cybersecurity industry, with a deep technical understanding of cybersecurity products, integrations, and the critical cyber threats facing our potential customers' environments.

Your Impact

Your Experience

Please note that we will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.

About the company

Palo Alto Networks

Company overview
Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that sells platforms and services for network security, cloud security, and security operations. The company also runs incident response and security consulting through Unit 42. Palo Alto Networks serves large enterprises, governments, and regulated industries, aiming to “platformize” security so customers can reduce tool sprawl. The company operates globally and hires across engineering, product, sales, and customer-facing security roles.

Locations and presence

Palo Alto Networks is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with offices and teams across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. Palo Alto Networks also advertises FLEXWORK as the company approach to how and where people work, including roles that are explicitly listed as remote in some locations.

Palpable Score

80.6
/ 100
Palo Alto Networks offers multiple credible entry points for graduates, including internships, new grad roles, and academy-style pathways under LEAP, and backs these with structured learning and peer support. The main limiter is hiring transparency: candidate-reported experiences suggest a consistent multi-stage structure in many cases, but timelines and perceived professionalism can vary by team. Pay signals are solid, especially where compensation ranges and intern market rates are visible, but early-career pay clarity is not equally easy to verify across regions and job families.
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