ASIC DFT Engineer

Job Title

ASIC DFT Engineer

Role Summary

Join the Common Hardware Group to design and integrate Design-for-Test (DFT) solutions for high-performance networking ASICs. The role partners with front-end RTL, back-end physical design, verification, and validation teams to define and deliver testability features across implementation and post-silicon phases.

Experience Level

Senior — minimum 7 years of relevant DFT, test, or silicon engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include specifying, delivering, and validating DFT features and flows across design and silicon phases.

• Implement hardware DFT features to support ATE, in-system test, debug and diagnostics.
• Develop and integrate DFT IP and test logic in RTL and full-chip contexts.
• Collaborate with design, verification, and physical design teams to enable test logic integration and validation during implementation and post-silicon flows.
• Drive DFT and quality processes through implementation signoff, gate-level validation, and post-silicon debug.
• Contribute to DFT and physical design strategies for new device models (bare die, stacked die) and reusable test/debug methodologies.
• Debug complex test and silicon issues with minimal supervision.

Requirements

Key technical skills and tools required or preferred.

• Must-have: 7+ years of experience in DFT, test, or silicon engineering; prior work with JTAG, scan, BIST (including memory BIST and boundary scan).
• Must-have: Experience with ATPG and industry EDA tools such as TestMax, Tetramax, Tessent tool sets, and PrimeTime.
• Must-have: Gate-level simulation and debugging experience (e.g., VCS); post-silicon validation and ATE pattern experience, familiarity with P1687.
• Nice-to-have: Verilog design experience for custom DFT logic and IP integration; familiarity with functional verification.
• Nice-to-have: DFT CAD development experience (test architecture, methodology, infrastructure) and test static timing analysis.
• Nice-to-have: SystemVerilog logic equivalency checking and test-timing validation skills.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering required. The posting specifies a minimum of 7 years of related experience.

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).