Lead DFT Engineer
AMD · Posted Oct 8
High-performance processors, graphics cards, data center solutions, and AI accelerators
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About the role
AMD's Design-for-Test (DFT) team drives the implementation and verification of DFT features to deliver high-quality, industry-leading semiconductor technologies to market, and encourages continuous technical innovation and career development. The team works on modern digital design and DFT across SCAN, MBIST, LBIST and JTAG, along with ATPG pattern generation, coverage analysis, and post-silicon bring up. This role is a lead DFT engineering position responsible for DFT implementation and verification, scan insertion and ATPG, Spyglass-DFTDRC debug, test coverage and cost reduction, and post-silicon yield support.
What you will do
- Implementation and verification of DFT features like SCAN, MBIST, LBIST and JTAG
- Support Spyglass-DFTDRC debug and coverage correlation
- Scan insertion and ATPG pattern generation
- ATPG patterns verification with gate-level simulation
- Test coverage and test cost reduction analysis
- Post silicon support to ensure successful bring up and enhance yield learning
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- We are looking for an adaptive, self-motivative DFT engineer to join our growing team. As a key contributor, you will be part of a leading team to drive and improve AMD's abilities to deliver the highest quality, industry-leading technologies to market. The DFT team furthers and encourages continuous technical innovation to showcase successes as well as facilitate continuous career development.
- You have a passion for modern, digital design, and DFT in general. You are a team player who has excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with other engineers located in different sites/timezones. You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and are willing to learn and ready to take on problems.
- Bachelors degree with 7+ years or Masters degree with 5+ years in Electronics engineering/Electrical Engineering
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in scan-stitching; and has good knowledge of scan-stitching related concepts
- Exposure to MBIST/BISR implementation and with the Tessent flow of mbist-insertion
- Excellent hands-on ATPG; and is well conversed with the files required to run ATPG
- Knowledge/experience with Tessent ATPG (mentor) is a plus
- Knowledge on Spyglass-DFT
- Excellent hands-on debug skills and scripting skills are critical
- Knowledge on automation scripts like TCL/AWK/SED is a plus
- Understands the basics of JTAG
- Experience with post-silicon bring up is a plus
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About AMD
AMD is a global semiconductor company that designs high-performance central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and adaptive processors for data centers, personal computers, gaming consoles, and embedded systems. The company specializes in advanced computing solutions and AI accelerators, positioning itself as a major leader in modern high-performance and artificial intelligence hardware. Through strategic developments and acquisitions, AMD continues to expand its ecosystem across cloud infrastructure, enterprise computing, and physical AI.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 31000 employees
- Founded
- 1969-05-01
- Location
- Santa Clara, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
- 2007-11-16Post Ipo
Leadership
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Data Center Solutions Business Group
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