DFT Engineer - Hardware
NVIDIA
India, BengaluruhybridPosted 5 months ago
Skill Required
EngineeringVeriloganalyticalsecurityPythondesignPerlFulltime
Key highlights
- 2+ years of experience required
- BSEE or MSEE from reputed institutions or equivalent experience
- End-to-end DFT ownership from RTL to silicon bring-up
- Strong DFT knowledge in Scan ATPG, compression techniques, and memory test
- Hybrid work arrangement (#LI-Hybrid)
- Scripting knowledge required (Perl or Python)
Role overview
NVIDIA is seeking a DFT Engineer to join its Design-for-Test Engineering team, which works on innovative solutions for DFT architecture, verification, and post-silicon validation on some of the industry's most complex semiconductor chips. The role involves end-to-end DFT work from RTL design through silicon bring-up on next-generation products. NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer and values continuous reinvention, having invented the GPU and pioneered parallel computing and modern computer graphics.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for end-to-end DFT from RTL design to Gate level scan insertion to Verification, including JTAG, boundary scan, security mechanisms, and test clocking across various test modes, including multiple ATPG configurations, to silicon bring-up.
- Verification and silicon bringup of Scan ATPG and other DFT features.
- Help develop and deploy DFT methodologies for next generation products.
- Strive to improve the quality of DFT methods as part of innovation.
- Work with multi-functional teams to incorporate DFT features into the chip.
- Occasional travel and some late hours online meetings involved during critical milestones.
Requirements
- BSEE or MSEE from reputed institutions or equivalent experience with 2+ years of experience.
- Well versed with static timing analysis, ECO, ASIC/Logic design flow, HDL, and digital logic design.
- Experience in RTL and gates verification and simulation.
- Familiar with BIST architecture and JTAG/IEEE1149.1/IEEE1500.
- Strong DFT knowledge in Scan ATPG, compression techniques, and memory test.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with good scripting knowledge in either Perl or Python.
Additional details
- NVIDIA has continuously reinvented itself; invention of the GPU sparked growth of the PC gaming market, redefined modern computer graphics, and revolutionized parallel computing.
- Research in artificial intelligence is booming worldwide, calling for highly scalable and massively parallel computation horsepower where NVIDIA GPUs excel.
- NVIDIA is an equal opportunity employer.
- Design-for-Test Engineering at NVIDIA works on groundbreaking innovations involving crafting creative solutions for DFT architecture, verification, and post-silicon validation on some of the industry's most complex semiconductor chips.
- Work arrangement: #LI-Hybrid.