ASIC DFT Engineer

Job Title

ASIC DFT Engineer

Role Summary

Design-for-Test (DFT) engineer on the Silicon One hardware team responsible for defining and implementing testability and debug features across RTL, physical implementation, and post-silicon validation. Collaborate with front-end RTL, backend physical design, and test teams to integrate DFT IP and support production-level test and diagnostics.

Experience Level

Senior — requires at least 7 years of relevant experience in DFT, test, or silicon engineering.

Responsibilities

Accountable for DFT architecture, integration, and validation from RTL through post-silicon. Work with cross-functional teams to ensure testability, debugability, and ATE readiness.

• Implement hardware DFT features to support ATE, in-system test, debug, and diagnostics.
• Develop and integrate DFT IP in collaboration with RTL, verification, and physical design teams.
• Drive full-chip testability integration and validate test logic during implementation and post-silicon phases.
• Participate in DFT and physical-design decisions for new device models including bare die and stacked die.
• Debug silicon and test failures with minimal mentorship and contribute to reusable test and debug strategies.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and tools; preferred items labeled.

• Must-have: Practical experience with JTAG, scan architectures, and BIST (including memory BIST and boundary scan).
• Must-have: Experience with ATPG and EDA toolsets such as TestMax, Tetramax, Tessent, and PrimeTime.
• Must-have: Gate-level simulation and debugging experience (e.g., VCS) and post-silicon validation using ATE patterns; familiarity with P1687.
• Must-have: Experience integrating DFT logic at RTL and coordinating across front-end and physical-design teams.
• Nice-to-have: Verilog design and functional verification experience; SystemVerilog logic equivalency checking.
• Nice-to-have: DFT CAD development, test architecture/methodology, and test static timing analysis.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a closely related technical field is required (as stated in the posting).

About the Company

Company: Cisco Systems

Headquarters: San Jose, CA, United States

Cisco Systems is a global technology company that designs and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, software, and services. It provides enterprise and service-provider networking, security, collaboration, and optical communications solutions (including Acacia Communications technologies for high-speed optical interconnects).