Sr Staff Engineer- Dft

Company: Qualcomm India Private Limited

Job Area: Engineering Group, Hardware Engineering

Job Summary

• Interface with design team to ensure DFT design rules and coverages are met.
• Generating high quality manufacturing ATPG test patterns for stuck-at (SAF), transition fault (TDF) models through the use of on-chip test compression techniques.
• MBIST verification (including repair), test pattern generation through Mentor tool.
• ATPG (SAF, TDF) and MBIST verification using unit delay and min/max timing corner simulations.
• Work with the Product/Test engineering teams on the delivery of manufacturing test patterns for ATE.
• Responsible for supporting post silicon debug effort, issue resolution.
• Responsible for Diagnostic Tool generation for ATPG, MBIST and bring-up on ATE.
• Developing, enhancing and maintaining scripts as necessary
• Minimum of 6-8 years experience in ASIC/DFT simulation and Silicon validation.
• Detailed knowledge on DFT concepts, pattern simulation, Silicon debug and yield enhancement.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in ATPG - coverage analysis.
• In-depth knowledge of Memory verification, repair and failure root-cause analysis.
• Experience with any of these tools is required.
• ATPG - TestKompress
• MBIST - Mentor ETVerify
• Simulation - VCS (preferred), ModelSim.
• Expertise in scripting languages such as Perl, shell, etc. is an added advantage.
• Ability to work in an international team, dynamic environment with good communication skills.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new tools, methodologies.
• Ability to do multi-tasking work on several high priority designs in parallel.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

OR

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 3+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.

10+ yrs of experience in DFT/ATPG/BIST