DFT Engineer

Job Title

DFT Engineer

Role Summary

Work on SoC Design-for-Test (DFT) activities for Broadcom's ASIC Products Division at the San Jose development center. The role covers DFT implementation, test vector generation and verification, post-silicon debug, yield-improvement activities, and coordination with Physical Design & STA teams and customers.

Responsible for automating flows, validating test vectors on ATE during silicon bring-up, and supporting failure analysis and diagnostics.

Experience Level

Mid-level — typically 2+ years of relevant industry experience, or a Master's degree in a related engineering field.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

• Define DFT specifications to meet product test metrics and customer requirements.
• Implement DFT features such as scan insertion, MBIST, TAP, LBIST, IO, SerDes and other input DFT integration.
• Generate, verify, and debug test vectors prior to tape-out.
• Validate and debug test vectors on ATE during silicon bring-up.
• Assist with silicon failure analysis, diagnostics and yield improvement efforts.
• Collaborate with Physical Design and STA teams to achieve DFT-mode timing closure.
• Automate DFT and test-vector generation flows.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills and experience:

• Hands-on exposure to DFT flows.
• Experience with Verilog coding, testbench generation and simulation.
• Memory BIST insertion and verification experience for embedded memories (SRAM, CAM, eDRAM, ROM).
• Familiarity with Test-STA and constraints.
• Knowledge of IEE-1687/IJTAG, ICL and PDL.
• Experience with scripting/programming for automation (TCL, Perl, Ruby, Python, C++ or similar).
• Strong problem solving, debugging and root-cause analysis skills and ability to work across disciplines.
• Solid understanding of analog and digital circuit design, device physics, silicon processing, synthesis and transistor reliability principles.
• ATE experience is a plus (nice-to-have).

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronic or Computer Engineering plus 2+ years of relevant industry experience, or a Master’s degree in Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering. Equivalent practical experience may be considered.

About the Company

Company: Broadcom

Headquarters: Irvine, California, United States

Broadcom is a global technology leader that designs, develops, and supplies a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. The company is known for its innovations in wireless and broadband communications, enabling a connected world.