Senior DFT Engineer

Company:Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.Job Area:Engineering Group, Engineering Group > ASICS EngineeringGeneral Summary: The Digital ASIC Design Team is currently seeking candidates who will be responsible for the implementation and verification of DFT/DFD (Design for Test/Design for Debug) techniques for low power, multi voltage designs. The candidate should have solid hands-on experience with industry standard DFT techniques such as scan and MBIST. Job responsibilities include DFT pattern generation, coverage analysis and debug as well as running and debugging gate level simulations. The ideal candidate will have experience in both pre, and post-silicon in the DFT domainMinimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.ORMaster's degree in Science, Engineering, or related field and 3+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.ORPhD in Science, Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of ASIC design, verification, validation, integration, or related work experience.Preferred Qualifications:

Minimum of 3+ years experience in the area of ASIC/DFT

In depth knowledge of DFT concepts

In depth knowledge and hands on experience in scan insertion, ATPG, coverage analysis, Transition delay test coverage analysis

Expertise in test mode timing constraints definition, knowledge in providing timing fixes/corrective actions for timing violations

Expertise in scripting languages such as perl, shell, etc.

Experience in simulating test vectors

Knowledge of equivalence check, DFT DRC rules both in RTL lint tool (like spyglass) and ATPG tool like (TK, TetraMax)

Working experience in Synopsis TetraMax/DFTMax and Cadence Encounter Test is a plus

Ability to work in an international team, dynamic environment

Ability to learn and adapt to new tools and methodologies.

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

Excellent problem solving skills

Excellent communication and team work skills and good English is required

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

The person hired in to this role will be contributing to DFT insertion and validation effort of complex chip, core and/or blocks.

Analyze, propose best compression that can be achieved for given SoC/core/block

Own and deliver scan insertion, validate equivalence check

Debug/resolve any DRC issues, identify solution and work with front-end team to ensure DFT DRCs are fixed.

Analyzing and meeting ATPG coverage goals

Owns STA constraints and work with STA team to resolve timing violations

owns IDDQ constraints generation and validation

Working independently in the team to solve problems, enable his team to deliver on time with high quality

Responsible for deliverables of certain aspects of SoC DFT execution

Responsible for pattern verification and debug

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