Principal Design Engineer

At Cadence, we hire and develop leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

We are a small group of individuals designing among the most complex chip in the world getting into the award-winning Cadence Design Systems Palladium platform…

As such we are seeking an experienced DFT engineer which role will span across the full spectrum of the DFT implementation: from architecture definition through silicon testing and debug.

A bonus, this individual will have cross functional teams’ interactions not only within our group; but across Cadence and the multiple BU involved in our developments.

Key responsibilities:

• Define and implement SoC level DFT architecture for large and complex designs.
• Develop, integrate, and support SCAN, ATPG, MBIST, BSCAN and iJTAG.
• Perform DFT insertion, verification, and coverage analysis at block and SoC levels.
• Drive pre-silicon DFT sign-off, including DRC closure and coverage targets.
• Support post-silicon debug, failure analysis and yield learning.
• Collaborate with RTL, verification, physical design and operation teams.

Qualifications:

• BS with a minimum of 7 years of experience OR MS with a minimum of 5 years of experience OR PhD with a minimum of 1 year of experience
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience in SoC DFT.

Must-have skills:

• Strong expertise in SCAN, ATPG, MBIST.
• Experience with pre-silicon validation and post-silicon debug.
• Strong problem solving and debugging skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional engineering environment.

Good-to-have skills:

• Scripting experience (TCL, Perl, Python or equivalent) for flow automation and analysis.
• Experience with IP-level DFT integration and reuse.
• Exposure to low-power DFT considerations and complex clocking architectures.
• Familiarity with manufacturing test flows and silicon yield improvement.

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