DFT Engineer / Sr Engineer

Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Hardware Engineering
General Summary:
Be a member of the team that plays a significant role in ensuring the quality of Connectivity SoCs through structured DFT, Automatic Test Pattern Generation (ATPG) and Memory Built-In Self-Test (MBIST) techniques. Primary responsibilities will include ,

Interfac e with design team to ensure DFT design rules and coverages are met.

Generating high quality manufacturing ATPG test patterns for stuck-at (SAF) , transition fault (TDF ) models through the use of on-chip test compression techniques.

M BIST verification (including repair), test pattern generation through Mentor tool.

ATPG (SAF, TDF) and MBI ST verification using unit delay and min/max timing corner s imulations .

Work with the P roduct /Test engineering teams on the delivery of manufacturi ng test patterns for ATE .

Responsible for supporting post silicon debug effort, issue resolution .

Responsible for Diagnostic Tool generation for ATPG , MBIST and bring-up on ATE.

Developing, enhancing and maintaining scripts as necessary

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR
PhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field.

Minimum of 1-6 year s experience in ASIC/DFT - simulation and Silicon validation

Detailed knowledge on DFT concepts, pattern simulation, Silicon debug and yield enhancement

In depth knowledge and hands-on experience in ATPG - coverage analysis.

In depth knowledge of Memory verification, repair and failure root-cause analysis.

Experience with any of these tools is required

ATPG - TestKompress

MBIST - Mentor ETVerify

Simulation - VCS (preferred), modelsim .

Expertise in scripting languages such as Perl , shell, etc. is an added advantage

Ability to work in an international team, dynamic environment with good communication skills

Ability to learn and adapt to new tools , methodologies.

Ability to do multi-tasking & work on several high priority designs in parallel

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