DFT, Principal Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering
In short
Synopsys seeks a Principal DFT Engineer in Austin, Texas to lead test architecture and implementation for complex SoCs. This role involves defining and executing scan, BIST, and analog test strategies, collaborating with design teams, and ensuring DFT signoff readiness to enable first-pass silicon success and improve production yield and cost.
Responsibilities
- Own DFT architecture, implementation, integration, and verification for complex SoCs and subsystems from specification through tapeout.
- Define and execute test strategies across scan insertion and ATPG, memory BIST, logic BIST, and analog/PHY test considerations.
- Drive DFT signoff readiness by identifying testability risks early and proposing design changes.
- Develop and institutionalize reusable DFT methodologies, checklists, and guidelines using Synopsys EDA tools.
- Partner with silicon validation and test engineering teams on post-silicon debug, failure analysis triage, and pattern refinement.
- Collaborate closely with RTL design, functional verification, physical design, timing, and power teams.
- Provide technical guidance to peers through design reviews, integration/debug support, and best-practice sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
- Typically 10+ years of hands-on SoC DFT experience with proven depth in scan/ATPG, memory BIST, logic BIST, and analog test considerations.
- Strong understanding of the end-to-end SoC design flow from microarchitecture through RTL, verification, synthesis, timing/physical implementation, and signoff.
- Demonstrated experience owning DFT implementation for complex SoCs that have taped out and gone to production.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally to resolve testability issues and drive closure under schedule constraints.
Desired Qualifications
- Strong working knowledge of Synopsys DFT tools such as TetraMAX, DFT Compiler, and BIST Architect is a plus.
- Post-silicon debug experience and collaboration with test engineering teams to refine production test programs is a plus.
- Ability to quickly identify untestable logic or weak test hooks and propose practical fixes.
- Comfortable leading technical discussions with architects and pushing back when decisions introduce coverage gaps or yield risk.
- High ownership and ambiguity tolerance, able to define a path forward with incomplete information.
- Ability to share expertise through hands-on collaboration, reviews, and problem-solving.
- Clear communication skills, translating DFT tradeoffs into schedule/cost/yield impact for stakeholders.
- Keeps current with evolving DFT techniques.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and healthcare plans.
- ETO and FTO Programs for time away.
- Maternity and paternity leave, parenting resources, adoption and surrogacy assistance.
- ESPP with a 15% discount on Synopsys common stock.
- Retirement plans.
- Competitive salaries.
- Annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses may be eligible.
- Comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits.
Skills
Scan InsertionATPGMemory BISTLogic BISTAnalog TestSoC DesignRTLTetraMAXDFT CompilerBIST Architect
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About Synopsys Inc
Smart, Secure Everything—From Silicon to Software Synopsys technology is at the heart of innovations that are changing the way we live and work. The Internet of Things. Autonomous cars. Wearables. Smart medical devices. Secure financial services. Machine learning and computer vision. These breakthroughs are ushering in the era of Smart, Secure Everything―where devices are getting smarter, everything’s connected, and everything must be secure. Powering this new era of technology are advanced silicon chips, which are made even smarter by the remarkable software that drives them. Synopsys is at…
Company
Synopsys IncJob Posted
2 hours ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Salary
US$170,000–255,000 · Negotiable
Experience Level
Executive
Locations
Austin, United States
Qualification
Bachelor, Master
Applicants
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