Principal DFT Engineer

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๐Ÿ“ Austin (Oakhill, Office)Full time

About this role

DFT Engineer

You will join a team working on leading-edge projects in the Business Unit (BU) MCU & MPU Engineering & Design Enablement (MMEDE). MMEDE BU brings the technology and ecosystem relationships for next gen automotive Processing, Edge Processing & Radar Processing products.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Handling RTL Design for DFT related changes in both Subsystem level & Top level Designs.

  • Inserting of MBIST RTL for memories & Verifying them.

  • Analyzing Scan DRCs & fixing them in RTL.

  • Analyzing ATPG reports on coverage & devise mechanism to improve coverage & generating patterns for ATE.

  • Inserting of TAP, IOs, Test Pinmux using NXP DFT flows.

  • Power Aware RTL/ GLS simulation bringup & taking care of the regression suite for both Non-ATPG & ATPG simulations.

  • Bringing up Patterns on Wafer probe & on Final Test by working closely with Product & Test teams.

Your Profile:

  • DFT engineer with 5+ years of experience in DFT implementation and verification of scan architectures, JTAG, memory BIST, ATPG.

  • Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook, and a clear focus on high quality deliverables.

  • Empathic communicator, able to see things from the other person's point of view.

  • Should be willing to take up new challenges in the project and be a team player.

  • The engineer should be well versed in Digital Design Concept, preferably having subject knowledge on Verilog/VHDL RTL coding.

  • The candidate should preferably have experience in any one of the following areas.

    • Scan insertion, JTAG, ATPG DRC and coverage analysis, Simulation debug with timing/SDF.ย 

    • Able to debug and root cause problems in simulation failures.

More information about NXP in the United States...

NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

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